Sydney lawyer who got Lockerbie victims $10m says MH17 families could get the same

By Tim Barlass
Updated July 27 2014 - 1:13am, first published 12:15am
Dutch and Australian investigators examine pieces of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in the village of Rassipne, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine on Friday. Photo: AP/Dmitry Lovetsky
Dutch and Australian investigators examine pieces of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in the village of Rassipne, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine on Friday. Photo: AP/Dmitry Lovetsky

The aviation lawyer who helped negotiate $10 million in compensation from Libya for families of the Lockerbie disaster believes the same could be achieved by relatives of those killed on MH17.