The Irving Judgment - David Irving v. Penguin Books and professor Deborah Lipstadt

Gray, Justice

ISBN 10: 0140298991 / ISBN 13: 9780140298994

Published by Penguin Books Ltd, London, 2000

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Paperback in tidy condition. No inscriptions or markings. "Denying the Holocaust" by Deborah Lipstadt was originally published in the US in 1993 by The Free Press. It was published in paperback in the UK by Penguin books in 1994. David Irving first complained about the reference to him in the text in letter to Penguin Books during November 1995. He issued a writ claiming damages for libel in September 1996, naming Penguin, Profesor Lipstadt and four individual Waterstones's booksellers as defendants. The writ was in due course served on each of the defendants, although the action against the four booksellers was later dropped. In view of the complexities of the evidence, the parties agreed that the action should be tried by a judge alone and Mr Justice Gray was assigned the case. The trial opened in the High Court in London on Tuesday 11 January 2000 and closing speeches were heard on Wednesday 15 March 2000. Mr Justice Gray delivered his judgment in favour of the defendants on Tuesday 11 April 2000. This text docments the trial. Seller Inventory # 026774

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Title: The Irving Judgment - David Irving v. ...

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, London

Publication Date: 2000

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: First Edition

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This is the full text of Mr Justice Gray's judgment in the case Irving v. Penguin Books and Professor Deborah Lipstadt. Irving claimed that he had been libelled by Professor Lipstadt's DENYING THE HOLOCAUST and spectacularly failed in his endeavour. 'Mr Justice Gray's verdict... was a tour de force... Libel trials in particular rarely end with the feeling that the full story has been told. Irving v. Penguin Books is a rare exception.' Clare Dyer, Guardian 'The Irving case has done for the new century what the Nuremberg tribunals or the Eichmann trial did for earlier generations.' Daily Telegraph 'One of the most crushing judgments ever dumped over an English plaintiff.' Neal Ascherson, Observer

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