Wider than that according to the Independent -
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mccanns-drop-court-action-as-police-release-files-861524.html" Shortly after their daughter disappeared, the judge, in the High Court Family division, granted them a wide order
requiring anyone on whom it was served to disclose relevant information to their solicitors.
The police were among those served with the order and serious issues then arose about the public interest in maintaining confidentiality of police investigations.
The Serious Organised Crimes Agency and the Attorney General intervened to advance their own arguments on public policy.
Mr Scott said it became clear that areas of law of great interest to lawyers would have to be considered.
"Gerry and Kate McCann are not lawyers and so far as they were concerned the legal proceedings were moving further and further from the only matter which concerns them - the search for Madeleine.
"The proceedings were in danger of becoming a distraction from, rather than an aid to, that single goal," he said.
Mr Scott said the information to be released by the police related to telephone calls made to the McCanns' solicitors and passed on to Leicestershire Constabulary's incident room during the early stages of the inquiry.
The chief constable has now agreed to provide contact details and a summary of the information provided by those early callers. "