How Megrahi judgment was reached: extracts taken from the ruling

Lords Hamilton, Kingarth, and Wheatley said: The grounds of appeal...are...numerous and complex. The applicant (Megrahi) by insisting in his whole grounds inevitably makes it so. He is entitled so to insist but having done so cannot complain if an early resolution becomes impossible. Moreover, the punishment part of his sentence has many years to run.