Real History and the Traditional Enemies of Free Speech The Index to the Traditional Enemies of Free Speech Alphabetical index (text) origins of anti-semitism AS a Christian of course I wish Mr Justice Gray only the best with his retirement. [image added by this website] London, David Irving comments: AS a Christian of course I wish M r Justice Gray only the best with his retirement.
There are already six books on the trial of my libel action DJC Irving vs. Lipstadt, so why should he not also profit from it? Some might argue that he would have attracted rather lower advances from publishers had he handed down a judgment in my favour, but he dismissed this argument as unworthy when I advanced it in court in challenging the credibility of Van Pelt (who was clearly planning to publish a book, though he denied it on oath ), so I am unable to argue it here.
Gray J was a remarkable judge, and was kind enough to speak well of me in an interview with The Guardian newspaper after delivering his unexpected and crushing Judgment (which was received with howls of glee, of course, by the usual sources, who had poured over thirteen million dollars into Lipstadt’s defence).
Dominic Carman , son of the late Queen’s Counsel, George Carman QC , one of Gray’s most powerful adversaries, told me that his father considered that Gray’s Judgment was flawed, and I would be hard put to disagree. I have recorded elsewhere ( and repeat below ) some of the reasons where I believe Gray went wrong.
ORIGINALLY a very successful libel QC, Sir Charles Gray was, and no doubt still is, outside the courtroom a close friend of both Richard Rampton QC, who acted for my opponents in the Lipstadt trial, and his junior, Heather Rogers , who had been Gray’s own junior in the famous libel action brought by Lord Aldington (Brigadier Toby Low) against historian Nicholas Tolstoy .
Gray must have found it difficult to remain neutral while hearing these two old friends pleading in Courtroom 14 at the High Court, against myself, a non-lawyer acting in person and represented by none of Rampton’s highly-paid cronies.
This, the money factor, is what made Gray’s decision to go on the Queen’s Bench as a judge all the more remarkable — he will inevitably be raised to the peerage, but he would have earned far more as a trial counsel than as a judge: Rampton was paid probably a million pounds for his brilliant advocacy in the Lipstadt trial, almost as much as the chief expert witness against me, Professor Richard “Skunky” Evans earned from giving his neutral and objective evidence against my worthlessness as an
historian at the trial, and far more than a Queen’s Bench judge would command. Mandrake [column] by Tim Walker By Tim Walker and Richard Eden Valuable words WITH his bottom “on the Consolidated Fund”, as judges like to describe their pensions, Sir Charles Gray is unlikely to have much trouble keeping the wolf from the door during retirement.
Before he stepped down from the High Court this month, Mr Justice Gray did, however, chance upon a potentially useful way of supplementing his income. “After consulting a number of experts in the field, I was informed that judges own the