So what's next in the libel trial saga?

[ferryman]

What were their Portuguese lawyers doing then?

Lawyers take instructions from their clients.

[Alice Purjorick]

Lawyers take instructions from their clients.

You mean instructions like: "Review the archiving documents to see if we have grounds to oppose the archiving process. If we have start the ball rolling".?

[ferryman]

You mean instructions like: "Review the archiving documents to see if we have grounds to oppose the archiving process. If we have start the ball rolling".?

No.

Instructions such as on the basis of what we've read, we think it is worthwhile applying to re-start the process

Or not.

As the case may be.

[Wonderfulspam]

Doesn't say much for poor old Amaral, then.  If it was so bleedin obvious, it should have be easy to prove that they dunnit.

So.  Why hasn't he.

Didn't he get taken off the case?

I think he did, didn't he.

[ferryman]

Didn't he get taken off the case?

I think he did, didn't he.

For incompetence.

He thought he identified whodunit, but he hadn't.

[stephen25000]

For incompetence.

He thought he identified whodunit, but he hadn't.

Are you being deliberately obtuse ?

He was removed after complaining about interference in the case.

[Wonderfulspam]

For incompetence.

He thought he identified whodunit, but he hadn't.

He had.

You know that, that's why you're here.

[ferryman]

Of course.

Portugal is in the habit of sacking its detectives who crack crimes ...

[stephen25000]

Of course.

Portugal is in the habit of sacking its detectives who crack crimes ...

He was the coordinator.

[Alfred R Jones]

For a minute there you lost me?   They brought their own roof down Samson and Delilah style.

What the good coordinating detective did was to open up the possibilities.  He was right to do so and the McCanns took the bait.

As far as profiting is concerned, would he not have been better off minus the Madeleine case?  You have a very short memory of what Metodo and Marcos Correia did to him while all the time being subsidised by McCann related money.  Just who was the real aggressor Alf?

How you can sit in support of Christopher Jeffries regarding the disgraceful treatment he received at the hands of the media and at the same time defend Amaral & The PJ who were the author of so many smear stories against the McCanns, even before the book was written, totally perplexes me. One can only assume you are here to play Devil's Advocate because your position seems to change with the wind. Tell me how Amaral would have made hundreds of thousands of pounds in a year or two WITHOUT the Madeleine case?

[stephen25000]

How you can sit in support of Christopher Jeffries regarding the disgraceful treatment he received at the hands of the media and at the same time defend Amaral & The PJ who were the author of so many smear stories against the McCanns, even before the book was written, totally perplexes me. One can only assume you are here to play Devil's Advocate because your position seems to change with the wind. Tell me how Amaral would have made hundreds of thousands of pounds in a year or two WITHOUT the Madeleine case?

Now talking is smears, what have the McCann's, their associates and supporters, including certain  members of the press being doing to Amaral ?

[Wonderfulspam]

Of course.

Portugal is in the habit of sacking its detectives who crack crimes ...

Got it all wrong didn't he.

As the great SY have proven with their Gerryalike burglary/gardener guy, who murders kids & changes their pyjama tops. Or was it the pig raping farmer & the receptionist?

[ferryman]

Got it all wrong didn't he.

Amaral?

Of course he did.

That's why they sacked him ...

[Alice Purjorick]

No.

Instructions such as on the basis of what we've read, we think it is worthwhile applying to re-start the process

Or not.

As the case may be.

Ah! buying a dog and barking yourself. Always a good idea.

[ferryman]

Ah! buying a dog and barking yourself. Always a good idea.

You haven't got the hang of the lawyer/client relationship at all, have you?