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Penguin Books Ltd and Deborah Lipstadt
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In 1993 American scholar Deborah Lipstadt published Denying the Holocaust, product of a research contract funded by an Israeli agency.
British writer David Irving claimed that it libels him.
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Important: See also the new Deborah Lipstadt dossier |
The Trial
- Mr Irving’s Opening Statement, Jan 11, 2000
- Mr Rampton replies for the defence
- Transcripts (or use drop down menu above)
- Latest Press Coverage
- Internet Links
- Mr Justice Gray suggests to an American student that he follow the action on David Irving’s website
- Feb 23, 2000: Mr Irving sets out as requested his views on the killing of Jews on the eastern front
- Judge Gray defines a List of issues in dispute between the parties
- Mr Irving’s Closing Statement, March 15, 2000
- Mr Rampton’s Closing Summary, March 15, 2000*
[*Website safety note: This link goes to Lipstadt’s website. As the webmaster of the Lipstadt website has installed HTML to prevent anybody from returning to our website once they are trapped in hers, we have made this a magic link: just point at it, to open this document in a different window.]
- Richard Rampton QC’s submission to the Court, March 17, 2000
- Mr Irving’s Final Submission on March 21 to Judge Gray
- Mr Justice Gray’s Judgment April 11, 2000
- Films on the trial [index under construction]
- Reader’s letter inquires why Mr Irving sued Lipstadt
- Analysis of the Lipstadt Trial from the Yale Law Journal, Jun 2001, by Wendie Ellen Schneider
- Arab press (April 2000) on the Lipstadt Trial
- History Today Impressions of the Trial by Michael Kustow
The Appeal
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IndexSee also the new Deborah Lipstadt dossier
- David Irving’s Initial Letter before Action
- David Irving’s Statement of Claim issued on Sept. 5, 1996 with a Writ alleging Libel in the Lipstadt book
- Defence pleaded by Victoria Sharp, counsel for Deborah Lipstadt, on Apr. 18, 1997
A virtually identical Defence had been settled by Ms Sharp in Mr Irving’s libel action against Guardian Newspapers Ltd and Gitta Sereny.
- David Irving’s Reply to this Defence, served on April 19, 1997; posted here with links to relevant documents on this site.
- Affidavit sworn by Mr Irving’s personal assistant on an episode at the Waterstone’s branch in Colchester, Essex (Waterstone’s staff were originally co-defendants)
- The foul contagion spreads: Lipstadt’s book is required reading at universities in USA
- May 5, 1998: Anthony Julius (of Lipstadt defence attorneys Mishcon de Reya) and Board of Deputies of British Jews pleads for funds to aid her defence
- Lipstadt’s attorney Anthony Julius applies on May 13, 1998 for the High Court to Reject David Irving’s Discovery List; Julius swears a lengthy affidavit in support of his application.
- Affidavit by Jonathan Mozzochi, chief of US Pacific-Coast “Coalition for Human Dignity”, an organisation of mob-spitters, supporting this application by Julius. . .
- . . . but precisely who is Mozzochi? and what is his CHD? | a police report on him | his Paranoid World | The anti-Christian agitator Mozzochi | stated to be in Las Vegas as dishwasher
- Second affidavit by Jonathan Mozzochi, Aug.27, 1998
- Readers comment on David Irving’s diary coverage of the libel action
- Legal correspondence: the next moves, September 1998
- Affidavit of Mrs M B, organiser of Oct. 1994 Oregon function, sworn Sep. 15, 1998
- David Irving wrote to Penguin Books on Sept 11, 1998, offering to release them from the action | Text of this modest offer to settle | Letters (2004) discussing the motives behind making this offer and the Part 36 offer, Oct 1999
- Oct 2, 1998. The High Court ordered the two defamatory Mozzochi affidavits taken off the file. The writer’s diary record
- Dec 15, 1998: High Court in London orders Deborah Lipstadt to verify her document-discovery on oath
- Rob Ross suggests ways to exploit the lawsuit against Lipstadt … and David Irving replies
- Statements are exchanged of witnesses of fact
[WEBSITE APOLOGY: Some of the statements and documents which were posted here from Jan. 22-25, 1999 have been removed under a High Court Order obtained by Deborah Lipstadt’s lawyers on Jan 26, 1999 (see next item). They will be posted again when they come into the public domain.]
- Prof. Deborah Lipstadt’s application for an Injunction to suppress publication on this Website of her witnesses’ statements and their documents | David Irving’s affidavit of Jan 26, 1999 | Order made by Mr Justice Moses
- Request to Hitler’s adjutant Otto Günsche to testify against Lipstadt
- Set down for trial on Jan 12, 2000
Interlocutory: Prof Lipstadt’s concealment of Evidence: |
- Apr 16, 1999: Mr Irving issues summons against Lipstadt alleging concealment of Video Evidence | Mr Irving’s affidavit supporting the summons
- Apr 19, 1999: Mishcon claim privilege in the videos. Mr Irving disputes the privilege
- Apr 20, 1999: Response by Lipstadt’s lawyer Mishcon again (falsely) claiming privilege | and similar Affidavit served by them Apr 21, 1999, 7:50 p.m.
- Apr 23, 1999: Mr Irving’s Skeleton Legal Argument for the hearing
- Radical’s Diary: High Court hearing of Apr 23, 1999
- Apr 23, 1999: Mishcon undertake to bring the videos to the High Court hearing; since they break this undertaking Mr Irving reports them to the Office for the Supervision of Solicitors
- It turns out that Mishcon have broken undertakings to others
- Mishcon ask to see a May 1959 satirical university magazine edited by Mr Irving
- David Irving invites historian John Keegan to testify as an expert at the trial
- Since Dr Keegan refuses to testify voluntarily, Mr Irving puts him on notice that he will issue a subpoena
- Identities of Lipstadt’s four courtroom history experts revealed, statements served
- Mr Irving invites Professor R Evans to answer some queries about his expert report
- Niall McNamara Lodges a Formal Complaint with the Charities Commission about the Wiener Library Ltd withholding documents from Mr Irving during the Lipstadt trial
- 2004: Times mentions the Lipstadt Trial in an attack on the fees paid to “expert witnesses”
Our dossier: The fight over Mr Irving’s seized possessions and archives
Index to the interesting Legal Situation caused by Deborah Lipstadt’s illegal postings of Mr Irving’s privileged documents on her university website
- HOLOCAUST DENIAL LITERATURE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY, by John A. Drobnicki. Carol R. Goldman, Trina R. Knight, Johanna V. Thomas, 1994 (reproduced by permission of the Nizkor Site).
- The Courses which Prof. Lipstadt teaches at Emory University, Atlanta
Chicago professor’s new book on Americans and the Holocaust heaps criticism on Deborah Lipstadt: Making “shoah-business” argument, he cites Lipstadt as example of the santification of the Holocaust
- Deborah Lipstadt replies to Peter Novick: The holocaust in the Western mind: how Americans think the unthinkable
- Deborah Lipstadt on Wolfgang Benz: vaguely uneasy that a German Historian should examine the Holocaust
- Worried report by Jerusalem Post, Sept 24, 1999, about this libel action
- Steve Pollack: “Emory’s Deborah Lipstadt prepares to do battle with Holocaust Denier David Irving“, Atlanta Jewish Times, Oct 8, 1999
- The Campaign for Democratic Renewal [one of Deborah Lipstadt’s defence witnesses], summarised in Who’s Who in Terrorism
- Judge rejects as “tainted” [Lipstadt witness] Bernie Farber in Toronto hate trial
- Anton Baer comments on Internet that Prof. Lipstadt’s refusal to debate with Deniers lays her open to wondering if she is not the “Flat-Earther”
- Newsday, Long Island, reports on coming “trial of the century”
- Law Student John Scholes asks questions, Thursday, July 28, 2005, about the Lipstadt Trial and appeal, and gets answers, but is not satisfied
Expert Reports [ some need Adobe Acrobat Reader: get it free!] |
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Now visit Deborah Lipstadt’s website on the libel action against her: www.HolocaustDenialOnTrial.org *
[*Website safety note: as the webmaster of the Lipstadt website has installed HTML to prevent anybody from returning to our website once they are trapped in hers, we have made this a magic link: just point at it, to open her website in a different window.]
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Deborah Lipstadt: “There is no debate. I refuse to lower myself to debating with the revisionists.”
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Elie Wiesel: “My experience is that the fanatic hides from true debate. The concept of dialogue is foreign to him. He knows how to speak in monologues only, so debate is superfluous to him.” –“When Passion is Dangerous,” Parade magazine, April 19, 1992, p. 21 |
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