Another puzzling omission to which many referred was the fact that no member of the board of the BTSB was called to account. One of the most striking aspects of Judge Lindsay's report is the language in which it is couched. It is as if it has to be in some sense whispered, for example, "a missed opportunity", "should have been pursued with greater vigour", "not appropriate for the Blood Service to put concerns about litigation above tracing people who may have been infected". It most certainly was more than inappropriate that the blood service procrastinated in this way. We are talking about people's lives and the urgency of time.