THE LATEST ON THE LEGAL FRONT

The pre-hearing of 30/07/2014 has now been “vacated”. This nice seven letter bingo would rid you of both the “V” and the “C”, but in legal jargon it means cancelled or abandoned. The reason is that on legal advice, I applied to the court in order to change the name of the defendant from “Marjorie Miller” to “Australian Scrabble Players Association (Victoria) Inc." The application order was granted. A new pre-hearing conference has been set for 10/09/2014.

The change would achieve two objectives. The first is to save us any more crocodile tears, the second is to ensure suing the Association as an entity represented by its Committee, not an individual.

WHY LEGAL ACTION?

This blog is indeed a mess as far as the chronological order of posts is concerned. Unless you followed it since its inception in mid 2008, it would be hard for you to follow what I am mumbling about.

I started this blog as a means of highlighting the problem of cheating in scrabble, without the need to point fingers at any particular individuals. I was, and still am, aiming at improving the wording of the rules and to insure their proper application. I believe that the laxity of applying the rules at club level is behind their prevailing infringement at tournaments.

The result was the improper persecution of me by the committee of ASPA(Vic) in 2008 and after. To this very day, MM still claims that, “Mohammed picks on vulnerable old ladies”.  When told by ME, my reply was to the effect that she was not a vulnerable old lady at the time I ‘accused her of cheating’ in 2005. When pressed to give me examples of the ‘vulnerable old ladies’, he cited MN. I told him that the lady in question is a close member of my club and would be the first to refute this claim.

So, MM is still continuing her hideous futile campaign of character assassination. She ignores the fact that, excluding her cronies, people who knew me firsthand would vouch to the absurdity of her claims.