I read in !emc-pstc that nickjro...@cs.com wrote (in <16.1c718a0e.29d24...@cs.com>) about 'U.S. Safety Regulations', on Tue, 26 Mar 2002: > John, I have heard you express these sorts > of ideas before. Can I ask you if you have > any authority you can quote to back them up?
I think you want to get into a legalistic argument, and I doubt that you are qualified to do so. I am not a lawyer either. But what I do know is that a defence is whatever you can get the court to accept. I did not say that a bald statement about a Directive would succeed; that's why one is 'represented' in court. The precise way of presenting the argument is all-important. As a fairly crude example, one might say that the words in the SI don't mean what the prosecution says that they mean. You refer to the words in the Directive from which the words in the SI were derived, and claim that they prove that the words in the SI mean what you say they mean. Now the prosecution has a problem. They can't admit that the SI is more stringent than the Directive, so they have to show that the Directive has that stringent meaning, which, if this is a case of 'gilded gold', they can't do. -- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Interested in professional sound reinforcement and distribution? Then go to http://www.isce.org.uk PLEASE do NOT copy news posts to me by E-MAIL! ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
