[TomOnTheRun]

2) An apology therefore opens up the Government to legal action (being sued) for millions.

Whoah. They didn't murder him. Surely there is some sort of statute of limitations on this sort of thing isn't there? It's been amore than 50 years. Besides - who would have standing to sue? He's dead and as a gay man he had no children.

[theDentist]

Well, you don’t have to have been murdered or driven to suicide by the Gov’t to sue the Gov’t. I’m betting there are lawsuits out there where non-family members have been found to have standing in a lawsuit against the Gov’t (both here and in Britain). And I do not know what the statute of limitations for civil suits would be...

Any attorneys out there that can weigh in?