> On May 19, 2017, at 3:13 PM, Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote: > > On Tue, 2017-05-16 at 06:19 -0400, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > wrote: >> CFJ: A non-player can hold an office and judge judgments. > > This is CFJ 3495. I assign it to o. (I can't link it with the CFJ > called in the below-quoted message because it was called by the judge > of that CFJ, and e has a fairly high case workload at the moment as it > is.)
I find the statement
A non-player can hold an office and judge judgments.
TRUE.
We can address it in two parts:
1. A non-player can hold an office.
2. A non-player can judge judgements.
The first is trivially true. Rule 1006 sets out the requirements of an
Officeholder:
> Officeholder is an office switch tracked by the ADoP, with possible values of
> any person or "vacant”.
As any person can hold an office, it is trivially the case that a non-player
person can hold an office.
The second is more complicated.
Rule 991 allows the Arbitor to assign only players to a CFJ:
> When a CFJ has no judge assigned, the Arbitor CAN assign any player to be its
> judge by announcement, and SHALL do so within a week.
(It also sets out some criteria restricting the set of eligible players.)
However, no rule requires that a judge be recused if they cease to be a player,
and Rule 591 allows the assigned judge to deliver judgement regardless of eir
status as a player:
> When a CFJ is open and assigned to a judge, that judge CAN assign a valid
> judgement to it by announcement, and SHALL do so in a timely fashion after
> this becomes possible.
It is indisputably possible for a player to cease being a player - by
deregistration, for example - between being assigned to a CFJ and assigning
judgement to it. As the rules make no provision for this case, by Rule 2125, it
is unregulated:
> The Rules SHALL NOT be interpreted so as to proscribe unregulated actions.
Therefore, under narrow but possible circumstances, a non-player can judge
judgements.
Thus, a non-player can hold an office and judge judgments.
-o
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