Surprise, shock and worry have been the order of the day throughout the process for those who have participated in the trial as legal observers. The proverbial Pandora?s Box was opened time and time again throughout the trial, releasing calamities in the form of direct and indirect violations of legal and procedural principles, committed by both the examining magistrate Baltasar Garz?n, and by the Penal Court, Third Section, of the Audiencia Nacional, during the trial which ran from 21 November 2005 to 14 March 2007.