Re: Equity, some questions

Would it not be possible to give a PP only to one side, for the unusual offence of playing the bird twice?

> On 3 Aug 2016, at 13:16, Jeff Easterson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the input; much more than I had expected.
> 
> An attempt to summarise:
> 
> There seems to be universal agreement that there is at least a formal 
> distinction between penalty and rectification.  But that doesn't really 
> address the central question of the original posting.  I attempted to 
> avoid the word "penalty" by using "sanctions" as much as possible.  
> Although all seem to agree that both pairs were equally at fault (and 
> leaving the question of a p.p. aside since it would be the same for 
> both) the situation of the pairs differs.  One had already played the 
> bds. (and thus had a legitimate result) - the other hadn't and was 
> scheduled to play the bds. later.  Thus there was nothing to rectify for 
> one of the pairs but the other pair would have to be assessed an 
> artificial score on such bds.  The general agreement seems to be that it 
> should be A- (40%).  The present laws seem to be clear about this and, 
> although it seems, in a certain sense, unfair to handle the pairs 
> differently there would seem to be no alternative.  This was the action 
> of the colleague in Berlin as well.  Theoretically, at least, it would 
> be satisfying to have the pairs (both) treated in the same way but I see 
> no way to do this and, in fact, can think of no way this could be done 
> in an altered version of the laws.
> 
> Again, thanks for our postings,  Jeff Easterson
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