THIS SECTION MAY BE COMPLETED BY ANY JURY MEMBER
Comments on rule questions, new interpretations, problems, unpopular Rule 62 (Redress) decisions, summary of the facts, conclusions and decisions of Rule 69 (Allegations of Gross Misconduct) actions, problems with Sailing Instructions or Notice of Race and experience with experimental procedures.
To be more efficient in our hearings several items:
1. Validity: Do the following:
a. State: ?This is the question dealing with validity.?
b. Ask Protestee: ?Did you understand you were being protested??
c. Ask Protestee: ?Do you have any issues with the validity of this protest??
d. If there he understood or has no issues, move on.
2. Witnesses
a. Ask both before the hearing starts: ?Do you have any witnesses; what are their names; are they standing by?.
b. This should cut down on the ?add a witness and go look for him issue?.
3. PC roles: Assign members to the following roles:
a. Chairman
b. Recorder
c. Questioner
d. Have a pre-hearing to determine what key facts you will need to find. It is the responsibility of the questioner to get to those key facts. Chairman will insure that. Recorder takes notes and writes facts. Nobody else asks questions.
e. Recorder should have a ?Facts Found? template
Ner of classes: 3
Entries: 190
Ner of Countries represented: 15
Ner of Races sailed: 11
Ner of requests for redress: 1
Ner of requests for redress for OCS: 0
Ner of requests for OCS granted: 0
Total number of hearings: 5
Total number of arbitrations: 0
Number of % penalties: 0
To be completed only if Appendix P was applied.
Number of First Penalties (Appendix P2.1): 11
Number of Second Penalties (Appendix P2.2): 1
Number of Third Penalties (Appendix P2.3): 0
P2.3 Subsequent Penalties: 0
Event:
Laser North American Regatta
Date Event Started
12 June 2014
Event Location:
Long Beach, CA, USA
Group Event belongs:
P - North America
Jury Chairman's name:
Kirk Brown
Jury chairman's email:
stmci@ix.netcom.com
Judge submitting report:
Kirk Brown
Email of judge submitting report:
stmci@ix.netcom.com
PRO at event :
Mark Townsend
PRO sailorID and status:
( IRO )
Email of PRO:
Was this an International Jury Panel ?
No
Please name each judge (including the chairman) and their country and IJ or NJ certification. one per line
Brown Kirk IJ/ALG USAKB19
Fredricks Doug NJ/USA USADF69
Stump Bill NJ/USA sailorid
Brown Kirk IJ/ALG USAKB19
Fredricks Doug NJ/USA USADF69
Stump Bill NJ/USA sailorid
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