"You are not following any rules of evidence here," Trenchant was continuing. "You are just submitting things on a whim. You have given this examiner copies—very bad copies—of material supposedly from my personnel file covering a period of over twenty years. Even if authentic, these documents contain the handwriting or printing of at least seven other people, possibly more, and I see nothing that delineates which of all these different writings is supposed to be the standard," she argued.
"Some of the writing on these was written entirely by my daughter or son," Diana held up the documents for inspection. "These tuition exemption forms were filled out and signed with my name by either my son or my daughter, for example. The rest of the writing is by a personnel officer.
"I am surprised that you didn't send samples of writing from the entire university while you were at it," she finished sarcastically, disgust clearly portrayed in her voice and on her face.
"This hearing is being held solely to hear the report of this document examiner. You will be given a chance to comment on his report," Henry continued, blithely ignoring Diana's protest.
"Who made these rulings?" queried Diana, prompted by Al.
"Pardon me?" Henry asked.
"Who made the rulings concerning the admissibility of these standards?"
"I am reading the ground rules for this hearing which are contained in my letter to you. I am entering it into the proceedings."
"So. Who made the ruling? Not the committee!"
"The committee is aware of these things."