[soac-mapo] RE: Follow-up from Monday's Consultation on Rec. 6

["Philip Sheppard" <philip.sheppard@xxxxxx>]

As ever I do enjoy Milton's absolute certainty about the uncertain.
 
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As to the questions I concur that we all agreed the Board should take ultimate
responsibility.
But I believe we recognised that the Board lacked expertise and so foresaw the
need for external experts.
Whether such provision is an automatic staff referral on receipt of an objection
or needs to wait around for a Board meeting to occur, was I believe an open
question.
This seems to be the essence of the practical application question regardless of
what we call the experts.
 
As to supermajorities of ALAC or governments, we must recall that the individual
ALAC appointees are also not experts in this area.
The underlying ministries whence the ALAC appointees come are also not the
experts in this area.
The ability of an ALAC appointee to be able to speak for his/her government
definitively of this issue is I believe severely limited.
Lets bear this in mind.
 
Philip