Re: Wanted: Alternate wording for Law 16Bb1(a)

Steve Willner:

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The downside, of course, is that this would remove the compromise
language to which all commission members assent even while disagreeing
on the intended meaning.

Richard Hills:

In my opinion Steve Willner is a general fighting the last war, erecting a
Maginot Line against the intentional ambiguities of the 1997 Lawbook.

There are zero "compromise" intentional ambiguities in the 2007 Lawbook.
For example, compare and contrast the ultra-ambiguous 1997 Law 40 with the
very specific 2007 Law 40.

Of course, since its publication some unintentional ambiguities have been
discovered in the 2007 Lawbook. In my opinion most of these
residual ambiguities are caused by over-succinct wording, which can be
easily rectified by more expansive language.

My personal preference would be for case studies / indicative examples to
be included in key clauses of the Lawbook. However, the Drafting Committee
may instead opt to place case studies in a different location (perhaps as
an appendix to the next edition of the WBF Code of Practice).

Best wishes,

Richard Hills

On Monday, July 25, 2016, Steve Willner <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2016-07-12 4:44 PM, Robert Geller wrote:
> >  it would be a worthwhile project to edit the English with a
> > view to making it easier to translate into all the languages of the
> > various Federations
>
> Even for those of us who will read only the English version, this
> strikes me as a highly desirable project.  Robert won't like it, but I'd
> nominate him, Konrad Ciborowski, and one member of the LC (possibly the
> Secretary) as the group to do the job.
>
> The downside, of course, is that this would remove the compromise
> language to which all commission members assent even while disagreeing
> on the intended meaning.
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