I must caution you that I'm not a medical doctor and that I'm doing it from observation, not from clinical expertise. Of the candidates we saw, the 600 that I mentioned, latecomers, and from various parts of the world, not just U.K., all thinking they might have a chance at a claim, there were only maybe 20 or fewer with radial aplasia and born in the right place and right time for it to be possible for their mothers to have been exposed to thalidomide. The quote from the German study struck me years ago. This man said he'd seen more babies with two heads than with phocomelia. Phocomelia is a description of fairly extreme bilateral arm reduction and radial aplasia.
To get into percentages, I would rather defer to one of the scientific diagnostic experts, such as Dr. Newman. But if you were to find somebody with one of the couple of conditions that I mentioned, from the right period, and presenting without any other inconsistencies—and now it's possible to eliminate genetic phenotypes in a way that wasn't possible up until the last maybe 10 years—your probability is going to be very high. It would be above 75%, I would suggest.
We were working on the civil law basis, obviously, with eminent High Court judges in charge. They would say we just have to be at 51% to decide to accept. I would say that, in most of our acceptance decisions, we took none as marginal as that. The feeling was that it was between 80% and 90%, every case we looked at, if not higher.