David Bain report of Hon Ian Binnie QC on compensation claim amended [pdf, 1.4 MB]
...17. 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 recorded at the 2009 trial would respond in 2012 in much the same manner as...