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Well, just make contact with the Expert after the Decision to clarify what documents were passed on by Nominet. In the interests of justice the Expert would probably complain to Nominet if a document potentially pivotal to the Decision had not been passed on.
There is no point trying to contact the 'expert' after the decision, as the agrieved party would then need to go to DRS appeal to further the matter, and Nominet's DRS fails to provide scope for the 'expert' to reply to such an enquiry, or consider what further weight the omissions might have had on his/her decision.
Nominet are not even compelled to duplicate copies of what has been forwarded, or provide a simple list of them. They don't even need to give reasons for their decisions as to what they have or have not passed on.
The last time I looked, their web site said that the DRS is a transparent method of resolving disputes. Hardly transparent when the parties involved haven't the foggiest idea what the 'expert' sees!
This wouldn't even be a talking point in a judicial process!
I do wish they would drop the label 'expert' too, which is something Nominet appears to promote, and have decided is appropriate to their appointment. A DRS Adjudicator is much more in line with the accepted norm.