New York Supreme Court appoints its own America's Cup Jury

12:53 AM Sat 31 Oct 2009 GMT

'Bryan Willis, has been Chairman of the International Jury for two America’s Cups and provided an affidavit for the Challenger in the recent Court action.' Duncan Worthington

Justice Shirley Kornreich has empanelled her own International Jury to consider key questions on the 33rd Match for the America's Cup.

In a second batch of rulings issued today, she has invited the Challenger and Defender to nominate one technical expert, who must also have sat on an America's Cup Jury to advise the Court on five key technical questions.

The two members chosen by the competitors will confer and select a third member of the Panel.

The questions they will be required to answer are:
1. How Load Water Line is measured in an America's Cup race, including, but not limited to whether SNG can exclude moveable ballast from the measurement, and whether the same procedures are used when dealing with a catamaran and/or trimaran

2. The safety of holding the race off the coast of Valencia in February 2010

3. When the Notice of race and other rules of the race are customarily issued in an America's Cup challenge, including when they are changed after the Notice of Challenge.

4. When a panel of Jurors is customarily appointed to an America's Cup challenge

5. Whether the contract between ISAF and SNG provides for an independent and objectivepanel of jurors, and by which rules such a panel of jurors is bound in an America's Cup challenge.

The New York Supreme Court's America's Cup Jury will appear at a Hearing called for 1000hrs on Wednesday 4 November along with the Defender and Challenger.

In a second part of her second Decision, Justice Kornreicht dismissed the argument that the rudder should be included in the measurement of load water line.

by Richard Gladwell

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