He reappeared when the hope of a final appeal was raised, but obviously the McCanns have finally accepted that they can't win this case.
I was reading the Appeal Court judgement which overturned the injunction in October 2010. It was interesting to see that it mentioned things that were later repeated by both the Supreme Court judges and those of the ECHR. Things such as the fact that TOTL was based on the PJ files, and that the McCanns had limited their right to privacy by making use of the media. An interesting read.
http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/court_docs.htm
They should never have gone after GA in the first place. The only people it seems that made his book successful were the mcs.
Goncalo de Sousa Amaral,
Guerra e Paz, Editores, SA
VC - Valentim de Carvalho - Filmes, Audiovisuais, SA and
TVI - Televisao Independente, SA
All of them based on the right of freedom of expression of thought that is constitutionally consecrated and
furthermore the fact that the statements and facts that were published in the book are the mere reproduction of solid data that is part of the investigation that was started at due time, and that said statements and facts are even part of the investigation's archiving dispatch that was signed by a Prosecutor of the Portuguese Republic.
A new sentence was issued, which basically upheld the sentence that had been issued before and that granted the request.
