Instead of using the words "inadmissible evidence" I could have said, "during arbitration the users shouldn't be able to drag in everything that happened during mediation", but the short phrase (from law, after all I was a lawyer) serves. It doesn't imply all the bullshit that goes with formal court proceedings, after all we are talking about mediation followed by arbitration for participants in a voluntary cooperative effort. Nevertheless it is useful to use short hand exppressions which represent events or things which otherwise have to be spelled out at length. Having to reinvent a new language for our particular proceeding would be quite burdensome although we probably will develop some language unique to our situation.
Fred
From: Daniel Ehrenberg littledanehren@yahoo.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:03:33 -0800 (PST) To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Unadmissible Evidence
Fred Bauder wrote:
What went on in mediation should simply not be considered at the arbitration stage. So claims, true or false, are irrelevant.
Fred
Why are you being so formal? This isn't a court of law, it's just a discussion. When you put all of these formalities like inadmissible evidence in, what you have is a month-long court case, not just a short talk to stop an edit war.
LDan
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