Protest Committee & Hearing Procedures
Jury / Protest Committee Models
FYI: for the National Sailing Series here in Philippines for last Season3, to proactively accommodate Organizing Authority / Host Club budget limitations (many smaller Clubs around the world currently ‘feeling the pinch’ too of course), we applied the following model (all were activated on the RRS online Events platform):
1. For the first two (2) regattas, hosted by smaller Clubs: single NJ on the ground (single-person-jury…yours truly), with a senior IJ online for any support required.
2. Third (3rd) regatta (larger Host Club): IJ + NJ on the ground, with a senior IJ online for any support.
3. Final fourth (4th) premier regatta in the series: full International Jury present, for those protests arising and also to hear any appeals from the former regattas (there were none).
4. Since then, for three (3) local club off-season regattas. 1. above has now been chosen (ahead of National Season4 start).
While there are obvious limitations associated with such a one-person-Jury mode or reduced PC member mode, we feel that responding proactively to such OA / local Club sensitivities, with some degree of flexibility, delivers our services and helps to foster World Sailing / RRS – perhaps this is more acute in developing nation sailing (?).
Created: Tue 09:12
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The way you are describing this seems to me to be unnecessarily complicating things.
So, for the first 3 regattas, you have a protest committee with no dispensation from appeals.
I think deliberately constituting a 1 judge protest committee is a very bad idea. Among other things you are letting the OA off the hook for finding some local judges in training to get experience.
I don't understand what you mean by 'an IJ online for any support required'. If you have one judge in person at the venue and other judges available on line, you have a protest committee that can do hearings with some members on line.
I have had quite a bit of success with one experienced judge at the venue doing Arbitration: in my experience that can dispose of most protests, and it buys you a bit of time to get an on line hearing organised.
What you don't have is properly constituted International Jury Panels in accordance with RRS N12.4(b), so a party that is dissatisfied with the local committee's decision is not entitled to a hearing by the full International Jury. What has to happen is an aggrieved party has to appeal to the MNA in accordance with RRS 70 and Appendix R, and the MNA then needs to appoint the IJ on your fully constituted International Jury to decide the Appeal.