[Photo outside the High Court a few minutes
after the jury announces its verdict]
The
PQ.l7 Libel Action, 1970
Captain
J E Broome, vs. Cassell & Co Ltd and David
Irving
In the High Court,
London
Captain
J E Broome, DSO, RN, the
escort commander in this 1942 North Russian convoy
disaster, sued David Irving in libel after the
publication by Cassell and Co. Ltd. of this book in
October 1968. The case came to trial in February
1970, and after seventeen days the Jury awarded
Broome what was then one of the largest sums of
damages, including punitive damages, in
history.
Captain
J E Broome, DSO, RN, the
escort commander in this 1942 North Russian convoy
disaster, sued David Irving in libel after the
publication by Cassell and Co. Ltd. of this book in
October 1968. The case came to trial in February
1970, and after seventeen days the Jury awarded
Broome what was then one of the largest sums of
damages, including punitive damages, in
history.
write
to David Irving