MCCANN v AMARAL TRIAL: Marinho Pinto will give evidence in person for the McCanns against Gonçalo Amaral in the final chapter of this 3-year-long libel claim
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Re: MCCANN v AMARAL TRIAL: Marinho Pinto will give evidence in person for the McCanns against Gonçalo Amaral in the final chapter of this 3-year-long libel claim

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Re: MCCANN v AMARAL TRIAL: Marinho Pinto will give evidence in person for the McCanns against Gonçalo Amaral in the final chapter of this 3-year-long libel claim
Smokeandmirrors wrote:I really think if someone intends to haul someone else into court, they should be there in person, it should be a legal requirement. Unless I have misunderstood, it sounds like the McCanns aren't going to be here.
It looks to me, that the McCann are scared to go there.

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Re: MCCANN v AMARAL TRIAL: Marinho Pinto will give evidence in person for the McCanns against Gonçalo Amaral in the final chapter of this 3-year-long libel claim
tiny wrote:the mccanns are trying to get as many knobs on there side as possible as i truely believe they are terrified of what Mr Amaral knows that hasnt come out yet.
I hope you are right and that something really significant comes out.

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Still more on Marinho e Pinto
Here's a short article placed by Joana Morais on her blog - on the subject of Marinho e Pinto, kindly passed on to me by KL (thanks!):
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Joana Morais has shared some thoughtful comment on the man which I will quote below. She was actually answering a comment made earlier on on her blog which you may also find of interest.
Joana Morais said...[in reply to comment No. 16]: Well said, let me just add some extra info to what you wrote.
It was Marinho e Pinto, the actual head of the Portuguese Lawyer's Order, who wrote the article in the Expresso newspaper, where the first pictures of Leonor Cipriano's bruised eyes were published - at that time those pictures were under judicial secrecy, which raises several questions.
It was also Marinho e Pinto who - in a unprecedented move - demanded on behalf of the Lawyer's Order for himself to be instituted as a 'legal assistant' in the 2009 trial of the 5 PJ officers [Goncalo Amaral and 4 others] accused of allegedly 'torturing' Leonor Cipriano - therefore so he could not be called as a witness over those photos, as was requested by the defence lawyers.
It was also Marinho e Pinto who wrote an article in the Lawyer's Order bulletin in 2009 defending José Socrates, affirming that the anonymous letter that involved the former Prime Minister in the Freeport scandal was forged by the Judiciary Police.
It was Marinho e Pinto's daughter, Barbara, who works in the law offices of Rogério Alves (the McCanns' lawyer) and Jerónimo Martins (the Vice-President of the Lawyer's Order General Council), who defended an alleged victim of 'torture' - a suspect of theft - against 3 PJ officers; where for the second time Marinho e Pinto used the Lawyer's Order as a device to be instituted as a 'legal assistant'. The former President of the Order, António Pires, said at the time: "This is regrettable from an ethical point of view. There may not be a legal incompatibility, but there is a moral incompatibility [it may comply with the letter of the law, but not the spirit].
Curiously, one of the 3 PJ officers was Tavares de Almeida, who was an Inspector in the investigation of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. [Note: He produced the hard-hitting Interim Report on 10 September 2007 into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann].
And finally, in 2010, Marinho e Pinto supported Isabel Duarte (the McCanns' media lawyer) in the elections to the Lawyer's Order Superior Council - Isabel lost the election but he didn't, unfortunately, and was re-elected for the triennium 2011-2013.
Like you, I'm totally convinced there are no innocent coincidences in the McCann case.
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