"John Lee"

I think there are actually good parallels here because just as Parliament can either incorporate the common law into statute law or reject it, the community can incorporate Arbcom interpretations of policy as binding policy themselves.

They can. The point being that the AC cannot directly create the required consensus.

The Arbcom has made policy; it's not policy that necessarily sticks (as I said above, some edicts are more widely-adopted than others), but it's still policy laid down by the Arbcom which the community decides to accept or reject.

Hardly. Sometimes, as here, we have gone through a genuinely dialectical process, and chopped out large bits that don't have proper backing even in the AC. But with the best will it is only a preliminary draft.

Charles

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