Pick any sentence from Kate's book.

[Robittybob1]

I'd suggest a book about Amaral's career focusing on the cock-ups in the McCann case, the perjury conviction, the bizarre way in which the Cipriano case was conducted, the alleged marital violence and infidelities and drunkenness etc.  No one would be able to complain that it wasn't Kate's right to publish such a book, surely?

Especially since Amaral is qute capable of writing another book to address any issues where he feels he is misrepresented in her yet to be written second "tell all" best selling book.  That method of redress is allowed by the established legal precedent of the Appeal Court. If he was likely to sue her she could pre-empt the claim by noting in the foreword that her first book was insufficient to address the defamation caused to her family by the "Truth of the Lie". Did the Appeal Court find that there was equal amounts of defamation caused to each party by the other?  I don't remember reading that.  So they can't claim it was because that is unproven.

[Robittybob1]

What do you mean by this exactly?  Are you saying that if the OC people had been convinced Madeleine had been abducted that no one would have bothered to go out looking for her...? &%+((£

What would be the point?  If the front door was shut and the gates and back door shut she could not have woke and wandered, she must have been abducted because the window was open.  Seems perfectly obvious to them it was an abduction (well to Kate at least).  So why did her friends even go looking?   She couldn't convince her friends or even Gerry to begin with, but they came around to her way of thinking by midnight.

[Alfie]

What would be the point?  If the front door was shut and the gates and back door shut she could not have woke and wandered, she must have been abducted because the window was open.  Seems perfectly obvious to them it was an abduction (well to Kate at least).  So why did her friends even go looking?   She couldn't convince her friends or even Gerry to begin with, but they came around to her way of thinking by midnight.

Faulty logic I'm afraid.  A child that has been abducted could still be in the vicinity, could have been dumped, escaped, murdered, certainly worth looking for. 

[Brietta]

When I was a kid my daddy told me self publicists were bullshitters to be avoided. Nothing in my life has ever shown my daddy's advice to be wanting in any way..............including concerning those who believe they are they brains in this baileywick....

  ... and your post relates to the topic of the thread in what way?

[Robittybob1]

Faulty logic I'm afraid.  A child that has been abducted could still be in the vicinity, could have been dumped, escaped, murdered, certainly worth looking for. 

You were right.  I was deliberately using faulty logic to show how previous posts seemed to be illogical as well.

But, but Alfie ....

Everything Amaral wrote is in the files.

Didn't you know?

What about the bits in the book where he claims the British removed the files?  The files are released and translated but some parts are removed before publication.  This not impossible. But it is impossible for us web sleuths to verify.
Is it possible sections were removed?  Is Amaral correct?

[Alice Purjorick]

  ... and your post relates to the topic of the thread in what way?

Bu**ar all.
The same relationship your bodyswerving post had to mine but thanks for reinforcing my point for me nonetheless.....

[Brietta]

Possibly because Portuguese judges know more about Portuguese law than people on Forums?

It does seem odd that Portuguese courts have no problem with "writings which defame named individuals with unfounded and preposterous accusations" but it is good of you to reinforce my post.

[ferryman]

When I was a kid my daddy told me self publicists were bullshitters to be avoided. Nothing in my life has ever shown my daddy's advice to be wanting in any way..............including concerning those who believe they are they brains in this baileywick....

Is not posting on message boards such as this self-publishing?

[Robittybob1]

Faulty logic I'm afraid.  A child that has been abducted could still be in the vicinity, could have been dumped, escaped, murdered, certainly worth looking for.

When you really think about the enormity of the problem that the police are faced with if there is an abduction followed by a murder and disposal situation.  Was this 100 meters away, 100 kms away or 1000 kms away from PDL, and in all directions including the sea, air and land. 
The entire police force in Portugal would get bogged down on just 1 missing girl if you tried to catch the person in the act.

[sadie]

When I was a kid my daddy told me self publicists were bullshitters to be avoided. Nothing in my life has ever shown my daddy's advice to be wanting in any way..............including concerning those who believe they are they brains in this baileywick....

Do not abuse Brietta.  Her brain is second to none

How are your brain cells?

[Robittybob1]

Later the same month, Amaral was given an eighteen month suspended prison sentence in connection with a case in which three of his officers were accused of torture. ....Madeleine  page 416.

[G-Unit]

It does seem odd that Portuguese courts have no problem with "writings which defame named individuals with unfounded and preposterous accusations" but it is good of you to reinforce my post.

I don't think you understood. What I was trying to point out was that you may think Amaral's book contains "writings which defame named individuals with unfounded and preposterous accusations" but that doesn't mean you're right.

You seem to believe that your opinion is superior to the legal knowledge and expertise of four Portuguese judges. On what basis, I wonder?

[Alfie]

I don't think you understood. What I was trying to point out was that you may think Amaral's book contains "writings which defame named individuals with unfounded and preposterous accusations" but that doesn't mean you're right.

You seem to believe that your opinion is superior to the legal knowledge and expertise of four Portuguese judges. On what basis, I wonder?

On the basis of having read it I would imagine.  Where in the ruling does the judge state that the book does not defame the McCanns with unfounded and preposterous accusations? 

[sadie]

I don't think you understood. What I was trying to point out was that you may think Amaral's book contains "writings which defame named individuals with unfounded and preposterous accusations" but that doesn't mean you're right.

You seem to believe that your opinion is superior to the legal knowledge and expertise of four Portuguese judges. On what basis, I wonder?

I would wager a good deal that Briettas knowledge of the happenings prior to the case ... and the dreadful goings on in them, is way superior to any Judges

[stephen25000]

I would wager a good deal that Briettas knowledge of the happenings prior to the case ... and the dreadful goings on in them, is way superior to any Judges

Why would you think that Sadie ?

How would Brietta have access to all records on the case ?