Brian
Surprise, surprise! Former law lecturer from tuppenny-ha'penny former Poly slopes-shoulders on major decision (in rather quick time given the length of time this has taken so far) counter to the considered opinions of some of the finest legal brains in the country.
This was always a question of justice rather than one of military or aviation experience. It seems we go beyond the aphorism that those than can, do and those that can't teach to those that can't do or teach become political nonentities.
I know you don't need me to suggest you keep on trucking. You know you, the families and the Mull of Kintyre Group will get there in the end.
Perhaps more than lawyers you need a philosopher to get round the Kafkaesque conundrum of apparently requiring 'new' evidence to overturn a verdict that was only reachable through a lamentable lack of evidence in the first place.