A few days after "Icesave bill 2" had been passed by the Althing, a highly respected judge of the Icelandic supreme court, Ragnar Hall, went public with a strong criticism on the repayment agreement, as it had been outlined with the same legal design flaw both in "Icesave bill 1" and "Icesave bill 2", and thus he recommended the president not to enact the passed bill and if a referendum subsequently was called on the issue he also recommended the Icelandic electorate to turn it down. The legal design flaw he had pointed out, was that the repayment agreement had a paragraph which had interfered and changed the usual creditor priority order, compared to how it normally worked according to the Icelandic law. He stated to have repeatedly pointed this important detail out to the Icelandic negotiatiers already in June 2009, then again in his article published 22 July 2009, and on several other occasions; but now he could see the issue unfortunately and somewhat surprisingly had not been fixed in either "Icesave bill 1" nor in "Icesave bill 2".