[blml] Sykes and Mist Beads [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Wayne Burrows:

>The changes in the new law seem to me to have moved
>towards the former illegal practices of the many
>sponsoring organizations and national authorities.

Richard Hills:

And popular practices of players which were formerly
illegal have been legalised too.  For example, see
the 2007 Laws 20F3 and 65B3.

When General Eisenhower was President of Columbia
University, a subordinate asked him what punishment
should be applied to the vast numbers of students
who illegally walked diagonally over the grass
quadrangle to reach their classes.  Eisenhower
replied, "Install a new path."

If vast numbers of players and vast numbers of bridge
bureaucrats were happily performing popular practices
of dubious legality under the 1997 Laws, what is
wrong with installing a new path in the 2007 Laws?

Wayne Burrows:

>'Special Partnership Understandings' require that
>the Regulating Authority believes that the
>understanding "may not be readily understood and
>anticipated".  This seems a severe restriction to
>me e.g. I can't believe that anyone would believe
>that a 8-10 1NT could not be readily understood
>.....
>Even a Fert 0-8 any distribution seems like it
>would be easily understood by the masses.

Richard Hills:

And anticipated???


Best wishes

Richard James Hills
Governance & Graduates Section
National Training Branch
Department of Immigration and Citizenship
Telephone: 02 6223 8439
Email: richard.hills at immi.gov.au

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