MR LOWIES
Chair, be that as it may, what my opinion specifically is as a lawyer is immaterial at this stage and in any other person's opinion, as to how you may go about.  But the fact is there is no law firstly, stating that you are not bound by it.  The only law that there is, is a section in the Act which says you cannot be reviewed.
	Now with respect, the argument is, those two scenarios which I've postulated in the beginning, they still stand, it's either this way or that way and there is no decision as to it yet.  Yes, we may say at a stage, or a lawyer may say;  I read the conduct of the Commission as being X or going in favour of this point of view or that point of view, but still Chairman, there is no decision on that.  There is no law on that and that is what you are requested to do.
	I would submit that the reason why this application is brought, or the motivation for it must be clear, but I don't want to make that quantum leap from the making of that judgment to a bias by this Committee, and therefore I would suggest that there is an intermediate position, and that position is; are you bound or not and then that must be decided by yourself, with respect.  There is a possibility that you may find on the probabilities in the one side or the other, but still ...(intervention)