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Even though we don't know if this is a
request to annul the Supreme Court
ruling or if it is, as was published in
the UK media, a formal complaint against
the ruling or judges, a few thoughts:
An annulment can be requested of a
ruling, even of a Supreme Court ruling.
This must be done on a point of law.
Since the ruling is extremely well
structured, there are no technical
points they can pick, the likely outcome
is that this will be denied .
Fact of the matter is that the judges
wrote several pages to come to the
conclusion of the not cleared
explanation and were explicit that it
was not up to the Supreme Court to
deliberate on their innocence or guilt.
There is a massive difference between
being innocent and being cleared by an
archival. The McCanns can always claim
they are innocent but they cannot claim
they have been declared innocent by the
archival.
This issue was only addressed as a
reply to the points in the appeal,
points that were made by the McCanns
themselves.
An annulment can only be considered on
points of law, which would never include
frivolity as an allegation.
In no way do we believe that frivolity
may be invoked regarding the explanation
of what a shelving of an investigation
process means, about three Supreme Court
judges when writing a structured and
impartial decision which is available to
read in its entirety and due context.
Finally, it is possible the judges will
consider the frivolity allegation as
defamatory and take legal action against
the couple. |
