2009/7/11 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
You can't know that and it's not your place to guess. Just stay out of it unless Derrick asks for your help.
I think we can safely assume that the NPG it is not going to follow a legal strategy that gives them a significant risk of facing millions in legal bills. Due to the conventions of English law it is generally unwise to overplay your hand when requesting damages.
As to staying out of it. As a private subject I'm pretty much free to do whatever I like for the pretty obvious reason that if that was not the case you would provide a great weapon for those wishing to cause further problems for those threatened with lawsuits.