[blml] "Reveley" ruling [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Richard Hills:

>>So a Reveley Ruling is permissible under a Law 27D
>>correction of a Law 27B1(a) ruling.

Bob Geller:

>I'd not heard this term before so I googled it, and
>here's what I came up with (from an old BLML post):

"The eponymous Ted Reveley (who won the main Swiss
Teams event) chaired the appeals committee and,
naturally, issued a "Reveley" ruling (which he
defined as a technically illegal compromise ruling
to approximate better to justice)."

Bob Geller:

>(Just in case others besides me also didn't know
>this term.)

Richard Hills:

A more precise meaning* of Reveley Ruling can be
found in the EBU White Book, clause 16.3:

"If a call (or play) is disallowed because the TD
judges that an illegal alternative was chosen when
unauthorised information was present then this call
or play may not be used in any calculations of
weighting."

[Snipped example of demonstrably suggested logical
alternative being included in weighted adjustment.]

"This is affectionately called a 'Reveley ruling'
because of a decision some years ago which brought
this problem to the L&EC's notice."

* the meaning of (definition of Reveley Ruling) is
the knowledge of what it shows and what it excludes.

Richard Hills:

I was somewhat loosely using the term Reveley Ruling
in relation to Law 27D.  The classic illegal Reveley
Ruling permits the offending side some credit for
using UI.  But Law 27B1(a) defines the information
available to the offending (and non-offending) side
as AI.

So a Law 27D classic legal ruling is a Gnilur Yelever.


Best wishes

Richard James Hills
Graduates and Developmental Training Section
Department of Immigration and Citizenship
Telephone: 02 6223 8458
Email: richard.hills at immi.gov.au

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