Sigrún Davíðsdóttir skrifar á ensku á bloggsíðu sína um dóminn í Byrsmálinu. Hún segir að Sérstakur saksóknari gæti líklega pakkað saman ef hann yrði staðfestur í Hæstarétti. Þarna séu öll merki um athæfi sem vinni gegn hagsmunum bankans en hins vegar túlki dómurinn það svo að um ásetning sé ekki að ræða, ólíkt því til dæmis þegar verið er að dæma fíkniefnasala. Niðurlag greinarinnar er svohljóðandi:

„The Byr ruling was a test case for the Special Prosecutor. So many of the cases that he will bring to court will most likely reflect similar situation: the charged has done things that cause a loss to a listed company. Since these were clever people and there is a certain purpose to the deals the Prosecutor will charge them for a criminal intent. The Byr case shows that there can be judges who absolutely can’t see any criminal intent. Just negligence.

There are many cases in Iceland where a drug dealer has been caught with a bag of ‘goods’ and he just says he didn’t know what it was whereas the judge rules that it had to be clear to him what he was supposed to do with the drugs. In these cases, the judge reads into the circumstances certain intent. In the Byr case, the judge sees the loans, sees the losses they cause, but he can’t see anything intentional though the loans make no sense except understood in the context they were made.

If this will be the case regarding pending charges, it’s clear that it will be very hard for the Special Prosecutor to get rulings in his favour. It will be of utmost interest and importance to see what the Supreme Court makes of the Byr case. Not all is yet lost and it’s still too early to send the Special Prosecutor packing. The Byr case shows that the Special Prosecutor has some formidable hurdles in court. And Icelanders are asking if it really is the case that circa 30 individuals who turned the Icelandic economy on its head will be able to live happily ever after with the proceeds that most Icelanders will see as ill begotten.“