1. 21 What distinguishes the Abacus case from other doomed subprime deals are the e-mails written by a young Goldman vice-president and now co-defendant, Fabrice Tourre.

2. ‘At the date of the appellant's trial he was a Compellable witness for the defence and there is no reason to believe he was unavailable.’ ‘There was no other way of eliciting this evidence because the maker of the statements was not a Compellable witness for the co-defendant.’