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Date Posted：06/16/2011 9:28 PMCopy HTML Sent: 3/14/2008 1:13 PMEXPRESS SUE Mar 10 Madeleine Parents Set To Sue NewspapersMadeleine Parents Set To Sue NewspapersAlistair BunkallSky News reporter Updated:12:16, Monday March 10, 2008 Lawyers for Kate and Gerry McCann are considering taking legal action against British newspapers whose coverage they feel to have been incorrect and unfair. Gerry and Kate McCannPrincipally they are looking at the publications in The Express Group: The Daily Express, The Sunday Express, The Daily Star and The Daily Star Sunday.Clarence Mitchell, the spokesman for the McCann family, confirmed that their lawyers were in discussions, but denied that any writs had yet been issued."It's wrong to say that we're actually suing, but our lawyers have been assessing all articles, in all papers."We are extremely unhappy with The Express Group's coverage. We always said it was the worst amongst all the tabloids."He also added that the figures that have been quoted in the media are wildly speculative and that The Express Group had made no initial offer for an out-of-court settlement.Under UK law, the McCanns and their lawyers have a year from the publication of an article to decide whether they wish to take legal action against its content.It is thought that in the case of the coverage they are assessing, that year would be up some time in mid-May, and a decision must be taken by then.Clarence Mitchell denied the family were taking this action because the Find Madeleine fund was running low.He said: "Yes, it's true that the fund is roughly half-way spent, but the main thing we require is an apology."He added that any money won as a result of legal action would go straight back into the fund
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Re：Threats/Action to SUE Date Posted：06/16/2011 9:41 PMCopy HTML YOUTUBE REMOVAL
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Re：Threats/Action to SUE Date Posted：06/16/2011 9:50 PMCopy HTML PORTUGUESE POLICE McCanns may sue Portuguese police for £1m if Madeleine investigation is closedLast updated at 11:32am on 9th November 2007Kate and Gerry McCann could sue the Portuguese police for failure to find their daughter, it was claimed yesterday. The couple could sue for an estimated £1million if the investigation is closed, it was reported. Their spokesman Clarence Mitchell said it was something the couple's legal team might consider in the future. Kate and Gerry McCann could sue for an estimated £1million if the investigation is closed, it has been reported One of the Portuguese lawyers acting for the McCanns, Rogerio Alves, told the newspaper Diario de Noticias: "What has to be done will be done in due time." A second member of their legal team, Carlos Pinto de Abreu said such a move was "technically possible" but would be difficult in practice. It would rely on the McCanns being able to prove that Portuguese police had failed to act on information which could have led them to Madeleine. One of the witnesses who claims to have seen the four-year-old in Morocco has told how police refused to investigate her sighting, saying: "It can't have been Madeleine because we believe she's dead." Other witnesses have complained that Portuguese police never returned their calls or investigated their sightings. Mr Pinto de Abreu said: "You would have to prove that it was intentional. It is very, very difficult, almost impossible to do. "Only if you had information that someone had said they knew where the child was and the police had taken no action. "It wouldn't be easy but it would be possible." Asked if it was something he would consider on behalf of the McCanns, he said: "I cannot think about it." The lawyer said it would not be possible for the couple to sue the Portuguese state for defamation over the decision to make them suspects in their daughter's disappearance. He said: "The officials have always said that all lines of the investigation remain open. "That is quite a cautious opinion. That's all they've said." The couple's spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "It is something for their lawyers to consider further on down the line. "The only way this case will close for Kate and Gerry is when Madeleine is found safe and well." There has been speculation that the case could be closed as early as Christmas |
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Re：Threats/Action to SUE Date Posted：06/16/2011 9:52 PMCopy HTML McCanns may sue dud cops By VERONICA LORRAINE Published: 09 Nov 2007 KATE and Gerry McCann could sue Portuguese cops for £1million for failing to find missing daughter Maddie. Top Portuguese lawyers are said to believe that if or when the case is wound down and “archived��?the McCanns could sue the state. Carlos Pinto de Abreu, one of the McCanns��?Portuguese lawyers, said it would be “technically possible��?to sue the Portuguese police for their failure to find Madeleine, who vanished from the family’s holiday flat in Praia da Luz on May 3. A source close to the McCanns said last night: “Suing is something they will consider but they can’t concentrate on anything but finding Maddie. “This is not about the money.��? The McCanns, of Rothley, Leics, have already put into action plans for libel cases against Portuguese newspapers. Family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said yesterday: “It is a matter for their lawyers.��? |
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Re：Threats/Action to SUE Date Posted：06/16/2011 9:53 PMCopy HTML 24 HORAS SUE 10/12 McCanns plan to sue 24 Horas
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Re：Threats/Action to SUE Date Posted：06/16/2011 9:59 PMCopy HTML Sunday Express MCCANNS: WE'LL SUE OVER DRUG CLAIMSThursday October 11,2007 By Martin Evans in FaroKATE and Gerry McCann last night threatened to sue over allegations that they had drugged their children on the night Madeleine went missing. The furious couple went on the offensive after reports in the Portuguese press claimed DNA tests would prove they had sedated all three of their children. The McCanns, who are both doctors, have consistently denied ever giving Madeleine or the twins Sean and Amelie any drugs whatsoever and called the repeated slurs “outrageous��?and “hurtful��? The couple’s official spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “Contrary to renewed speculation in the Portuguese press, Gerry and Kate McCann wish to make it categorically clear that they have never, ever used sedatives on their children. “To suggest otherwise is as outrageous as it is hurtful.��?Mr Mitchell said the couple would be closely monitoring the reports in both Portugal and the UK and would take legal action if necessary. <FORM action=/posts/search/>The angry response followed yet more unsubstantiated slurs in the Portuguese press claiming the results of long awaited DNA and toxicology tests would prove the couple had drugged their children. </FORM> The report appeared in the 24 Hours newspaper, which has followed the McCann case closely, but has been the source of some of the more outlandish reporting. It has been widely reported in Portugal, but never officially confirmed, that detectives working on the five-month investigation believe the McCanns killed their daughter with an accidental overdose of sedatives and then staged her abduction to cover their tracks. It is understood the basis for this wild theory was simply the fact that on the night Madeleine went missing the two-year-old twins, Sean and Amelie did not wake up during all the confusion. Little is known about the forensic tests currently being undertaken at a laboratory in Birmingham, but 24 Hours claimed on its front page that the results were now complete. Without naming its source the report stated the tests indicated the presence of drugs in DNA samples belonging to Madeleine and the twins. The Forensic Science Service refused to comment on the reports. Spokeswoman Laura Mackin said: “We don’t comment on any tests from the lab. The inquiry is ongoing and we just can’t comment. We are just working closely with the police.��?The McCanns have insisted they have never administered anything stronger than the widely used children’s painkiller Calpol, Gerry’s mother Eileen recently admitted it was possible the children had been drugged by an intruder. Last week Eileen McCann, 69, said: “I really believe they (whoever took her) gave her a drug. There is no way they carried her out of there without her awakening. “If she was taken when she was sleeping by somebody she did not know, she would have screamed the place down.��?/SPAN> One of the McCanns��?neighbours at the Ocean Club, Pamela Fenn, who has been interviewed by the police, has stated that she heard a little girl crying in the apartment the night before Madeleine went missing, exploding the idea that the children were being sedated every night. Portuguese police are hoping detailed tests will be able to ascertain whether the strands of hair came from Madeleine’s head when she was alive or after she died and also whether they show any traces of sedatives or drugs which could explain how she died. But friends of the McCanns have always maintained that any of Madeleine’s DNA which is found in the vehicle has a “wholly innocent��?explanation. They have explained that the hire car was used to transport items of Madeleine’s unwashed clothes in the weeks after she went missing as well as rubbish which contained dirty nappies belonging to the little girl’s brother and sister. The couple are now planning to hire their own forensics experts to refute the claims put forward by the Portuguese police. Ends affleck,QPS By Tony Bonnici Madeleine McCann’s parents have thanked Ben Affleck for his “sensitivity��?at postponing a film which bears uncanny similarities to their daughter’s disappearance. The thriller Gone Baby Gone is directed by the actor and tells the story of a missing four-year-old girl. The star agreed to put off opening the film - which had been due to be screened at the London Film Festival next week - without any intervention from the family. Speaking at the US premiere in Los Angeles, the star said he understood why the distributors, owned by Disney, decided to pull the film. He said: “It just came down to the fact that there is a family there, and there is a country that has been exposed to the story and seems to have become to a certain degree emotionally sensitive to it. “Disney thought they would err on the side of good taste and postpone it until it calmed down a bit.��?/SPAN> Yesterday Gerry and Kate McCann’s spokesman Clarence Mitchell said that it had been a welcome decision. He said: “We thank him for being thoughtful enough and sensitive enough to Gerry and Kate’s position to make such a commercial decision. “Obviously we hope Madeleine will be found very soon to enable Kate and Gerry to move on, but also to enable him and the movie to go ahead in due course.��?nbsp; The film is based on the book by bestselling novelist Dennis Lehane and bears some bizarre coincidences with the McCanns��?own circumstances. It is about the search for a girl called Amanda who police believe was kidnapped from her bed after her parents left her home alone. The girl is played by a young actress called Madeline (COR) O’Brien, who bears a close resemblance to little Madeleine, who was taken six days before her fourth birthday. |
