> >> CFJ 2120 states (apparently in accordance with previous precedent which I > >> couldn't find) that, where there is a SHALL without any reasonable > >> mechanism to > >> fulfill it, it implies CAN by announcement.
Unfortunately, CFJ 2120 gets precedent wrong, and this concerns me. CFJ 2120 says "SHALL implies CAN by announcement, based on the precedent in CFJ 1765". But a look at CFJ 1765 shows the arguments are: I believe that the obligation to perform an action in conjunction with the phrase "by announcement", as used in the last paragraph of R1871/18, implies a mechanism for the action In other words, the chain of precedents that we're relying on actually starts with: SHALL by announcement implies CAN by announcement. This isn't so much of a stretch! So I'm worried that the missing "by announcement" is never addressed with any reason and based on faulty precedent... It would be great to be clear and set a precedent, if "by announcement" (or other method like w/o objection) isn't specified, when can we infer "by announcement"? I mean, why doesn't it imply w/o objection instead, just as an example. If SHALL works, does it work for MAY? Lower case directives? Etc.