ampan,
" Crew failed to verify position before going below height of known hazard. But it looks as if they intended to verify their position before going down, and then changed the plan"
And now you are getting to the conclusion that Chippendale, Ellis, Bolt, L'Estrange, Sir G Roberts, and many others, who between them have many thousands of hours of air time, as well as admin in the highest level in the aviation world, arrived at. As against a judge, who may well have been a very good judge, but had never parked his arse in the drivers seat of an aeroplane.