Once again, courtesy of Sky’s Jon di Paolo and his twittering:

9:54: Kate and Gerry McCann are sitting outside the court, only a few yards away from where Mr Amaral and his team are standing.
9:59: Gerry McCann outside court: we’ve heard no evidence Madeleine is dead.
10:00: Gerry McCann: we’re not denying the existence of the dogs, or anything else. It is evidence we’re interested in.
10:02: Gerry McCann: this is the legal process we’re going through to protect our daughter. We’re looking for more information to help the search.
10:03: Gerry McCann: anyone else with children would do the same.
10:15: Mr Amaral claimed victory outside court, saying the witnesses had borne out his argument.
10:38: We’re back in court. The first witness is Moita Flores, former senior policeman and noted public figure.
10:41: Flores: this case involves a question of freedom of speech.
10:44: Flores is an acquaintance of Amaral’s and wrote the preface to the sequel to his book about Madeleine.
10:50: Flores: PJ investigation was based on well-established principles of police work adhered to all over the world.
10:54: Flores: McCanns have been trying to convince police since the beginning that abduction was the only line of inquiry worth pursuing.
11:02: Flores: I have spoken to respected experts on crime and none of them agrees it would be possible to pass a child through the window.
11:03: Flores: It is not possible to ask an investigator anywhere in the free world to follow the abduction line only.
11:03: Flores: We would all like to find Madeleine alive, but that is another thing.
11:03: Flores: Our constitutional rights cannot be attacked.
11:05: Flores: The good name of the McCann family is not attacked by Mr Amaral’s book. The book is about the investigation.
11:11: As on the first day of the case, the McCanns are sitting on the front bench, listening impassively to the proceedings.
11:12: Flores: No judge should be able to order people not to think about a case just because the police investigation has ceased,
11:17: Flores: No-one should be allowed to steal our constitutional rights – rights that were very hard to win. That is what this trial is about.
11:24: Mr Flores is being cross-examined by a lawyer from a Portuguese television company that aired a documentary based on Mr Amaral’s book.
11:26: Flores: It is not true to say that the police only pursued the line of inquiry that the McCanns were guilty.
11:26: Flores: Many, many hours were spend by officers checking out every other possible line of inquiry.
11:27: Flores: A detective has to think about what went through the head of the victim and the criminal.
11:30: Flores: It would have been a very stupid person who tried to pass a sleeping child through the window of the McCanns’ holiday flat.
11:30: Flores: The theory about passing the child through the window makes it seem as though someone is trying to fool the police.
11:41: The McCanns’ lawyer, Isabel Duarte, is repeating the same question to Mr Flores. Yesterday, she became quite impassioned on their behalf.
11:42: The McCanns are both in conversation with their interpreters. Gerry however looks relaxed and smiles as he talks.
11:47: Flores: I worked in a different part of the police to Mr Amaral but I know him from the investigation and I respect him a lot.
12:00: Isabel Duarte, the McCanns’ top lawyer, leaves the bench and approaches the couple for a quick huddled chat before returning to the fray.
12:04: Flores: This case is pathetic. A citizen is being prevented from freely expressing his opinions in a responsible way.
12:06: Flores: The McCanns have every right to do everything they can beyond what the Portuguese police did in order to find their daughter.
12:12: Flores: The documentary (based on Mr Amaral’s) book is a hypothesis that believers take to be the truth.
12:13: Flores: The book is autobiographical; it traces a period of Mr Amaral’s life.
12:16: Flores: Sections of the British media spread propaganda about Mr Amaral.
12:20: Glamorous judge Maria Gabriela Cunha Rodrigues halts the cross-examination of Mr Flores by the McCanns’ lawyer, saying it is not relevant.
12:22: Flores: It was a scandal to see such nasty portraits painted of the Portuguese investigators by the British media.
12:27: Flores: Mr Amaral was the victim of a smear campaign. He is a good professional with a good technical background.
12:27: Flores: Mr Amaral was the co-ordinator of the investigation. He was not in the field.
12:40: Duarte: What does the title of the book (by Mr Amaral) mean? Flores: The book is a thesis, not the absolute truth.
12:41: The proceedings have adjourned for lunch. Back in an hour’s time.
2:30: Waiting outside the courtroom for the afternoon’s proceedings to begin. Mr Amaral is here too, chatting on a mobile phone.
2:41: We’re back in the courtroom, as are the legal teams, Mr Amaral and the McCanns. No sign of the judge yet though.
2:42: We’re expecting to hear from three witnesses involved in the publishing of the book this afternoon.
2:57: Judge Maria Gabriela Cunha Rodrigues has arrived, so the afternoon’s proceedings can begin.
3:00: Jose Manuel Enes, a former forensic laboratory chief in the Portuguese police, is the next witness.
3:00: Mr Enes is giving evidence in person, rather than via video link as Mr Flores did this morning.
3:00: Mr Enes has an associateship in chemistry and a doctorate in anthropology, but has now retired from the police force.
3:04: Mr Enes was interviewed by a Portuguese journalist for a book about Madeleine’s disappearance.
3:12: Mr Enes says that the immense media interest in the Madeleine case was unhelpful for the investigators trying to solve it.
3:13: Mr Enes compared the Madeleine McCann case to that of OJ Simpson, saying that allegations of contamination of evidence had compromised it.
3:15: Mr Enes’ phone has just gone off, drawing laughter from the court. The judge is smiling too as the clerk has to turn it off for him.
3:17: Mr Enes tells the court he has been called to give evidence in several other cases as an expert witness.
3:17: Mr Enes says his conclusions are often relied upon completely by the courts in which he gives evidence.
3:22: Mr Enes: I strongly respect the convictions and work of Mr Amaral.
3:22: Mr Amaral has suddenly got up and walked out of the courtroom, causing a murmur among the onlookers on the public benches.
3:37: Mr Amaral has left the court building, stopping to give a few comments in Portuguese before climbing into a waiting car.
3:39: Mr Amaral said he was pleased with Mr Flores’ testimony earlier, adding that for the first time it had been explained why he wrote the book.
3:39: Mr Amaral added that he wrote the book to protect his honour and set the record straight.
3:40: The former policeman said what he described as a campaign against him in the British press is continuing.
3:40: He added that he had only this morning been described as ‘incompetent’ in one British newspaper.
3:43: Right. Back to the courtroom. Mr Enes is still giving evidence.
3:45: Mr Enes says the Madeleine investigation was the victim of ‘friendly fire’ from the media that hampered its course.
3:47: Mr Enes says that just because people put forward their own theories, it does not prevent other lines of inquiry being investigated.
3:49: Mr Enes: Some parts of the book were put too strongly – it’s not the way I would have done it, but that’s because I’m from another era…
3:49: …the course of justice should not be diverted by books or films; it should be deaf and blind to them.
3:52: Mr Enes has left the witness stand, and has been replaced by Mario Sena Lopes, former chief editor at the book’s publisher, Guerra e Paz.
4:01: Mr Lopes tells the court that Mr Amaral’s book had been ready to publish in the last week of July 2008.
4:01: The book was published very quickly to take most advantage of marketing opportunities, the court hears.
4:05: The marketing plan for the book was much smaller than normal, because we are a small publisher, Mr Lopes tells the court.
4:46: Sorry about the pause – we had a brief intermission during which Gerry McCann left the court.
4:47: Mr McCann held an impromptu press conference outside the front of the court where he was besieged by journalists’ questions.
4:50: He explained that he was leaving the court case as he had unavoidable work commitments in the UK, but that Kate would stay on until the end.
4:50: Despite the avalanche of testimony favouring Mr Amaral over the past two days, Mr McCann seemed to be quite upbeat.
4:50: I think it’s important that things have been debated in a court of law, he told reporters.
4:50: From our point of view, what happened here in the past few days is to be expected.
4:58: “I think it’s particularly disappointing that the police officers who considered us responsible for Madeleine’s disappearance…
4:59: …are the same officers that we are depending on to carry on the search for Madeleine.
4:59: The search for Madeleine is ongoing. We don’t have any leads and we need to keep searching.
5:01: Mr McCann added that mistakes were made during the investigation that now cannot be righted – but that was not the point of the court case.
5:04: We made a mistake by leaving Madeleine alone in the apartment, and we have to live with that. We can’t change it, Mr McCann said.
5:04: He also rejected the testimony yesterday that Kate had had a dream about Madeleine lying buried somewhere, saying “that never happened”.
5:07: I hope that everyone remembers that there is a little girl missing that still has to be found, Mr McCann continued.
5:07: That’s why we carry on. We have other children who miss Madeleine dearly.
5:09: He added that although the testimony had favoured Mr Amaral’s version of events, it still had not produced any evidence Madeleine was dead.
5:10: Mr McCann also rejected the charge that the trial was a bid to restrict freedom of speech, as has been claimed by Mr Amaral’s supporters.
5:41: That’s the last update from court for today. Back tomorrow morning.