David Bain report of Hon Ian Binnie QC on compensation claim [pdf, 1.1 MB]
...My job is to review this material with fresh eyes. I have certainly not purported to conduct a retrial. It is not within my mandate to do so. There have already been two trials. Not only would a third trial be prohibitively costly and time consuming (in a case that is already over 18 years old) but I think the Cabinet is entitled to assume, for present purposes, that the 130 witnesses whose evidence is re...