McCANNS LOSE THEIR APPEAL!! GONCALO WINS 31/01/17 in Supreme Court

candyfloss wrote:Just saw it and have copied....


Madeleine McCann's parents 'disappointed' by libel ruling


2 February 2017

  
Kate and Gerry McCann attended the initial libel trial in Lisbon

Madeleine McCann's parents have told of their disappointment after Portugal's highest court threw out their libel case against an ex-detective.

In 2015, Goncalo Amaral was ordered to pay 500,000 euros (£425,000) to Kate and Gerry McCann, of Rothley, Leicestershire, after he implicated them in their daughter's disappearance.

The decision was overturned following an appeal last year.

The McCanns took the case to Portugal's Supreme Court, but it was dismissed.

Madeleine went missing days before her fourth birthday, while on a family holiday in the Algarve in 2007, and has not been seen since.




Mr Amaral had suggested the couple faked her abduction.

While the judges' official ruling is yet to be published, lawyers for Mr and Mrs McCann have been informed of the decision.

According to the Associated Press news agency, a court official said the court had ruled the allegations were protected by freedom of expression laws.


 


"What we have been told by our lawyers is obviously extremely disappointing," the McCanns said in a statement.

"It is eight years since we brought the action and in that time the landscape has dramatically changed, namely there is now a joint Metropolitan Police-Policia Judiciaria investigation, which is what we've always wanted.

"The police in both countries continue to work on the basis that there is no evidence that Madeleine has come to physical harm."

Madeleine went missing from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, on May 3 2007, as her parents dined at a nearby tapas restaurant

The McCanns sued Mr Amaral over claims he made in his 2008 book

Mr Amaral, who led the initial investigation into Madeleine's disappearance but was taken off the case in October 2007, released his book - In The Truth Of The Lie - three days after Portuguese police closed their investigation the following year.

He later took part in a documentary for Portuguese television in which he claimed Madeleine was dead, there had been no abduction and that the McCanns had hidden her body.

The McCanns have said previously the claims had exacerbated their anguish and discouraged people from coming forward with information.

Scotland Yard started a review of the case in May 2011, after then-Prime Minister David Cameron responded to a plea from the McCanns

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38836473

unreorganised wrote:

Andrew wrote:@bluebell. This doesn't really answer your question but it was something I was reading last night which I found quite interesting:

http://www.iaindale.com/posts/2013/09/22/how-newspaper-book-serialisations-work

Interesting that you should mention Iain Dale; here's a blast from the past.

http://iaindale.blogspot.co.uk/2007/09/libdems-who-are-advising-mccanns.html

Satsuma wrote:The Portuguese Supreme Court decided that GA was entitled to voice an opinion as an expert detective who had worked on the case, but that was under Portuguese Law

This would not apply in the UK

Specifically in England, where English Law is applicable, the book as it stands would be deemed libellous

Personally I would say there is no chance of a translation appearing in UK bookshops in the forseeable future, and probably never - unless there is a conviction approximating to his theory

Satsuma wrote:The Portuguese Supreme Court decided that GA was entitled to voice an opinion as an expert detective who had worked on the case, but that was under Portuguese Law

This would not apply in the UK

Specifically in England, where English Law is applicable, the book as it stands would be deemed libellous

Personally I would say there is no chance of a translation appearing in UK bookshops in the forseeable future, and probably never - unless there is a conviction approximating to his theory

froggy wrote:

Satsuma wrote:The Portuguese Supreme Court decided that GA was entitled to voice an opinion as an expert detective who had worked on the case, but that was under Portuguese Law

This would not apply in the UK

Specifically in England, where English Law is applicable, the book as it stands would be deemed libellous

Personally I would say there is no chance of a translation appearing in UK bookshops in the forseeable future, and probably never - unless there is a conviction approximating to his theory

What about Scotland? There's this thing about Scottish newspapers being able to print things that are banned in England.  Would this apply to books?  Could a Scottish paper print excerpts from the book?

Bloodhound wrote:Holy moly,  just found this over the road


http://yournewswire.com/madeleine-mccanns-parents-covered-up-death/


Portugal’s Supreme Court has ruled that the parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann may have covered-up her death to protect an elite pedophile ring operation.

froggy wrote:

Satsuma wrote:The Portuguese Supreme Court decided that GA was entitled to voice an opinion as an expert detective who had worked on the case, but that was under Portuguese Law

This would not apply in the UK

Specifically in England, where English Law is applicable, the book as it stands would be deemed libellous

Personally I would say there is no chance of a translation appearing in UK bookshops in the forseeable future, and probably never - unless there is a conviction approximating to his theory

What about Scotland? There's this thing about Scottish newspapers being able to print things that are banned in England.  Would this apply to books?  Could a Scottish paper print excerpts from the book?

Satsuma wrote:Never mind GA, it's strange that the owners of this forum and the other one have never been sued for libel

Maybe it's because most of what's been written on them over the years is so far removed from the truth that it  provides a distraction from what really happened

unreorganised wrote:

AndyB wrote:

Poe wrote:What would happen if the Portuguese publisher printed an English translation and sold it online (both in ebook and hardcopy) through a Portuguese website?

My guess is that they could still sue for those copies that were sold to the UK

It would certainly be an interesting test case for the Treaty of Rome and the supposedly free movement of goods and services throughout the EU.