[blml] re claim

[gesta at tiscali.co.uk]

Grattan Endicott<gesta at tiscali.co.uk
[following address discontinued:
grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk]
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  but it dances.)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Reppert" <ereppert at rochester.rr.com>
To: "Bridge Laws Mailing List" <blml at amsterdamned.org>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] re claim


On Dec 31, 2007, at 11:58 AM, gesta at tiscali.co.uk wrote:

> +=+ There are evidently differing opinions as to why the
> Drafting Subcommittee (not the WBFLC) did what it did,
> and what was the intention.

I gather from your following comments that you consider the DSC's
intentions irrelevant, now that the 2007 laws have been published.

> No individual can interpret the law with authority

Um. Careful, Grattan. You are undermining the authority of the TD on
site.

+=+ I had thought that what followed would clarify. However I agree
that at a tournament the Director in charge can interpret the law (but
will be subject to any interpretation given to him by Zone or NBO.)
Nothing that an individual member of the DSC or of the WBFLC
says is anything more than personal opinion. I do support ton's
position rather than Kojak's and I muse also upon the possibility of
bringing 70D3 into it.
       The DSC has ceased to exist, except insofar as it may illustrate
in an appendix the operation of the 2007 laws. That would not have
the force of an 'interpretation' unless and until adopted as such by the
WBFLC. In any case the production of an appendix seems to have
hit the rocks, albeit only temporarily perhaps.
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Grattan ~   +=+