Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 12:46:51 11/28/03
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On November 28, 2003 at 12:41:14, Mike Byrne wrote: >I think this was handled very very badly, perhaps correct under the rules of the >tournament, but still very badly overall. > >My suggestion to prevent this from happening in the future is to have strict >time lines BEFORE and AFTER the tournament for one to question the "legality" of >a program, but not during the tournament. Especially in light of these >artificial deadlines made to author while studying for his exams. (why the rush >to judgment? IMO, the organizers were very heavy handed in how this was >conducted - esp. with the ultimatums and the like) There would have been plenty >of time to address these issues after the tournament. If porgram was found to >be illegal after the tournament . all the games should be discarded, not just a >select few. The more I look at all this (with my legal hat on) the more worrying it gets. Essentially natural justice is denied; an authority, with it seems very little or no legal backing, took a decision which had disastrous results for the recipient who, themselves, appears to have had no legal representation, hence no second opinion on the process, evidence etc. Now sport (particularly football [soccer]) in the United Kingdom has a very poor record going back at least 40 years of hasty decisions being taken, under cover of what looked superficially like a legal process but wasn't, which were challenged in the courts and collapsed. Alastair
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