'Our lawyers are watching!': Kate and Gerry McCann warn Portuguese policeman his new book on their daughter's disappearance must NOT be published in Britain

Doug D wrote:Usual load of bollocks from Tracey, Clarence & TM, unless of course GA has sent them a draft outline of the book, which of course he hasn’t.
 
To paraphrase  seems to be: ‘We don’t know what you’ve said, but we’re going to sue you anyway if you dare to publish anything in the UK’.
 
TM need to be careful what they wish for, but they are now very much stuck somewhere between a rock and a hard place.
 
As Verdi (I think it was) suggested the other day, actually getting the Mc’s into a UK Court to testify and be cross-examined on their numerous statements by a decent barrister, under oath, could prove rather enlightening.
 
Taking it to Court would make it a guaranteed best seller though, bit like the old days with the BBC banning records – guaranteed to get to No. 1 in the charts the following week.

Doug D wrote:Usual load of bollocks from Tracey, Clarence & TM, unless of course GA has sent them a draft outline of the book, which of course he hasn’t.
 
To paraphrase  seems to be: ‘We don’t know what you’ve said, but we’re going to sue you anyway if you dare to publish anything in the UK’.
 
TM need to be careful what they wish for, but they are now very much stuck somewhere between a rock and a hard place.
 
As Verdi (I think it was) suggested the other day, actually getting the Mc’s into a UK Court to testify and be cross-examined on their numerous statements by a decent barrister, under oath, could prove rather enlightening.
 
Taking it to Court would make it a guaranteed best seller though, bit like the old days with the BBC banning records – guaranteed to get to No. 1 in the charts the following week.

jeanmonroe wrote:Libel trial Day 01 Witness 02 Emma Loach text from PDF 12-09-2013

ID – In which documentaries did you participate?
EL corrects that she is actually the documentary maker. One was broadcast in May 2008, Madeleine McCann, one year on (ITV) and the other in May 2009, Madeleine was here (Ch4). In the first one she didn't use the word "abduction" and the McCanns, as arguidos, couldn't speak. The documentary is about the McCann European campaign.
ID – They were broadcast in how many countries in the EU?
EL doesn't know.
ID – Are they based on the McCann couple's thesis (the abduction)?
EL answers that in the second documentary an investigator (David Edgar, witness 3) says there are many theories but they investigate it on the basis that it was an abduction.

c) Guerra & Paz's lawyer's questions

GP – I understand that, from 2010, you and the McCanns met once every three months. Do you know when the book was published? Do you know how the McCanns had access to the book? Did they speak about it in general?
EL says they spoke of the conclusion in particular.
GP – Do you know if the book was published in the UK?
EL says she saw it in bookshops.
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GP – Do you know if the book was published in the UK?

EL says she saw it in bookshops.  

SO, does anyone 'know' if the McCan't 'lawyers', in 2013, under McCan'ts 'instruction', issue a summons, to SUE these 'bookshops', in the UK, Emma L 'saw GA's book in'

Not a 'single' bookshop, apparently, but bookshopS, in the UK, according to EL.

Lands_end wrote:

Doug D wrote:Usual load of bollocks from Tracey, Clarence & TM, unless of course GA has sent them a draft outline of the book, which of course he hasn’t.
 
To paraphrase  seems to be: ‘We don’t know what you’ve said, but we’re going to sue you anyway if you dare to publish anything in the UK’.
 
TM need to be careful what they wish for, but they are now very much stuck somewhere between a rock and a hard place.
 
As Verdi (I think it was) suggested the other day, actually getting the Mc’s into a UK Court to testify and be cross-examined on their numerous statements by a decent barrister, under oath, could prove rather enlightening.
 
Taking it to Court would make it a guaranteed best seller though, bit like the old days with the BBC banning records – guaranteed to get to No. 1 in the charts the following week.

2 items here spring to mind, God save the Queen by the SexPistols, and also "A record by the group Wings". Remember that one?

Mentality wrote:

Lands_end wrote:

Doug D wrote:Usual load of bollocks from Tracey, Clarence & TM, unless of course GA has sent them a draft outline of the book, which of course he hasn’t.
 
To paraphrase  seems to be: ‘We don’t know what you’ve said, but we’re going to sue you anyway if you dare to publish anything in the UK’.
 
TM need to be careful what they wish for, but they are now very much stuck somewhere between a rock and a hard place.
 
As Verdi (I think it was) suggested the other day, actually getting the Mc’s into a UK Court to testify and be cross-examined on their numerous statements by a decent barrister, under oath, could prove rather enlightening.
 
Taking it to Court would make it a guaranteed best seller though, bit like the old days with the BBC banning records – guaranteed to get to No. 1 in the charts the following week.

2 items here spring to mind, God save the Queen by the SexPistols, and also "A record by the group Wings". Remember that one?

The Wings song I remember being banned was Give Ireland Back to the Irish.

The guy who was banned most often though, was Judge Dread.