You can be assured that Gonçalo Amaral is appealing against much more than the amount of damages.
In view of the manifest and proven lies Amaral has told, why do you suppose he should be appealing anything at all?
Let's see ...
Mark Harrison changed the investigation to one for a little girl assumed dead
(Oh no he didn't).
Mark Harrison concluded Madeleine was buried in close vicinity to apartment 5a
(Mark Harrison tentatively suggested that
if she was dead, Madeleine's remains were most likely jettisoned into the sea).
Kate sacked a Leicestershire police liaison officer (where's the evidence)?
Eddie 'smelt death' all over the place. Neither Grime nor Harrison said that.
Amaral contradicted and corrected Prior on interpretation of the forensic results. We can safely assume that's a lie.
Prior rang the FSS to berate them on the PJ's power's of arrest (lie!)
The FSS produced a preliminary report (no they didn't).
STU 100 would have confirmed Madeleine was dead but was blocked by customs (the STU100 is for trapping and storing scents of
living people suspected of crimes).
And so the catalogue of lies rolls.
And yet you think Amaral has a substantial basis for appeal?
Why is that?