I have just read the bits and bobs from today's events and cannot get over the fact that Oliveira had it all his own way today. Duarte has taken the cowards way out and left it to her sidekick to make a token appearance. One of the McCanns should have been there today, it is their case, they raised the action. What Duarte did today would be considered disrespectful in a British court.
Perhaps Duarte had a prior engagement like Amaral's lawyer the other day, but unlike him did not decide to play the game of delaying the trial?
Your presumption that she was the coward and he wasn't is quite funny really.
And why should the McCanns have been there? Is there some legal requirement? Why should they waste time travelling for about five hours of testimony which they have heard before. Not one of those witnesses today gave anything new at all, because there is nothing new they can say. Paiva changed his mind and this time (unlike at the injunction hearing) decided that the book did have an effect. I have no doubt the judge will refer back to his previous testimony and note that odd change in his stance. Thats all that was new today.
Almeida was a complete waste of time, clearly (if the claims of [ censored word] about Duarte's use of certain witnesses is to be believed) a definite sign of incompetence on the part of Amaral's lawyers.
The testimony about Krugel is old hat and shows absolutely no regard for a proper understanding on the part of the PJ officers as to what the motives for his being accepted by the McCanns were.