As a result, the initial verdict, delivered in 1951, was decided in Fawcett's favor.
The client did not actually receive any money after the initial verdict.
Expansion work resumed in September 2010 after a court ruling overruled the initial verdict which had halted expansion.
The initial verdict on the spill and its aftermath is mixed.
Early on the third day of deliberations, the initial verdict seemed at first to convict both men.
This necessitated another trial, which returned to the initial verdict and sentenced Batsch to six months in prison.
But his initial verdict will worry George Osborne.
We need to look beyond the initial verdicts.
Knox spent almost four years in jail while she waited for her first trial and appealed the initial verdict.
Now, an initial verdict is in.