International Campaign for Real History since 1991

Quick navigation

Amended Saturday, February 14, 2004

Deborah Lipstadt intitiates High Court action demanding all the possessions of Mr Irving seized by the official trustee in May 2002.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE No. 257 of 2002

[...]

BETWEEN:

DEBORAH LIPSTADT

Applicant

 

- and -

 

(1) LOUISE M. BRITTAIN
(2) COLIN MICHAEL TREVETHYN HAIG
(3) DAVID JOHN CAWDELL IRVING

Respondents

LET Louise M. Brittain and Colin Michael Trevethyn Haig, both of Baker Tilly, Spectrum House, 20-26 Cursitor Street, London EC4A 1HY (the joint trustees in bankruptcy of the second respondent) (the "Trustees") and David John Cawdell Irving of [...] attend before the bankruptcy registrar in Room 110, 1st Floor, Thomas More Building, Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London WC2A 2LL at [ 12:30 a.m./p.m. on [ 23 January 2004, time estimate 30 minutes] on the hearing of an application by Deborah Lipstadt (a creditor of the Bankrupt) for:

  1. An order pursuant to C.P.R. rule 19.2 that the applicant be joined as an additional respondent to the application of the Bankrupt dated 15 October 2003 (the "Bankrupt's Application") (to which at present only the first respondent herein, Louise Brittain, is a respondent).
  2. Upon such joinder, directions be given to enable the applicant to file evidence in relation to the Bankrupt's Application, and generally as to the further conduct of that application.
  3. A direction pursuant to section 303 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (the "Act") that until the Bankrupt's Application can be heard substantively, the Trustees shall not part with any documents or chattels in their possession, custody, or control to which the Bankrupt's Application relates.
  4. In the event that the Bankrupt's Application shall be dismissed upon substantive hearing (whether wholly or in part), such directions to the Trustee pursuant to section 303 of the Act as the court shall think fit for the purpose of realising such assets of the Bankrupt as shall at that date remain unrealised.
  5. Such further or other relief as shall to the court seem fit.

The grounds upon which the applicant claims to be entitled to these orders are set out in the first witness statement of Daniel Davis dated 15 December 2003, a copy of which is served herewith.

It is intended to serve this application on each of the respondents at the addresses given for them above.

The Applicant's address for service is: Mishcon de Reya, Summit House, 12 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4QD (ref: DD).

Solicitors to the applicant.

If you do not attend, the court may make such order as it thinks fit.

Our dossier: The fight over Mr Irving's seized possessions and archives
© Focal Point 2004 F DISmall write to David Irving