[WikiEN-l] How many Arbitrators should we have?

Thu Oct 6 15:17:01 UTC 2005

On 10/6/05, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Appelate courts also do not permit new evidence to be brought forth.
> They judge on points of law rather than facts.  It would be up to the
> lower ranking tribunal to sort through the mass of irrelevant material
> that is often raised.

I don't guarantee that the ArbCom would elect to refuse to consider
new evidence on appeal.  However, just having the case marshalled for
review through the process of the preceding magisterial process will
immensely help the ArbCom in its determinations.

The other appeal to a tiered system is that it will scale far better
than most of the other proposals I've seen.  Any system which has
ArbCom as a court of original jurisdiction is going to have scaling
problems in the long term, IMO.

Kelly