MACH2
The only flaw in your 'case' was:
"for the benefit of lawyers".
The decision provides no benefit to lawyers just as there would have been no benefit to them if the decision had gone the other way.
PrivtPilotRadarTech
The sentence you quoted from my post was addressed to Genghis and was a response to a specific point he had made earlier in the thread. It is not relevant to the issue decided by the Court of Appeal.
The Court of Appeal decision in a nutshell:
The entire AAIB report may now be used as evidence in civil proceedings - even if the author(s) and others who contributed to it are not called as witnesses and, accordingly, the other side has no opportunity to cross-examine them.
Having read your views in this thread and in the Private Flying forum I am not in the least surprised that you regard the decision as "reasonable and fair".
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