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
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