Almost every aspect of Madeleine McCann's case is unprecedented. Perhaps this will be reflected in the unprecedented level of the award against Mr Amaral being allowed to stand, either by refusal of an appeal (and I think it is the only avenue of appeal open) or at appeal.
I think the danger of an appeal is that it is possible the award could be increased rather than decreased.
Particularly against the backdrop of a present Anglo/Portuguese enquiry that does not remotely consider the McCanns or their friends as suspects, it is a mystery that a book by the first coordinator of the investigation stating that TheMcCannsdunit, covered up the fact of Madeleine's death and fabricated an 'appeal' in their (dead!) daughter's name was
not deemed to have harmed the search for Madeleine.
Why is not self-evidently obvious that if people across countries of Europe (including in England, where the English-language version is available on line) read and believe Amaral's book, the search for Madeleine will be harmed?
Perhaps an appeal-court judge will take a different and slightly saner view?