Real History and Deborah Lipstadt’s Contempt for the Law since 1991 your Lipstadt trial index Lipstadt’s publication of privileged documents Lipstadt’s claim to your possessions your Deborah Lipstadt dossier • HELP MR IRVING’S LEGAL BATTLES David Irving writes to Lipstadt’s London lawyers, Dear Mr Libson Your client Lipstadt AS you are no doubt aware from my website, I have taken strong exception to the
manner in which your client has taken it upon herself to post on her University website at www.++++.org (” **** “) many hundreds of my personal papers including my personal diaries and letters.
You were yourself present at the hearings before Master Trench in, I believe, October 1999 in which I voluntarily offered to provide to the Defendants access, under the securities afforded by the Rules of Discovery , to my entire diaries rather than just the few entries which Mr [Anthony] Julius was demanding.
After considerable debate, which you will surely recall, Master Trench made an Order which under normal circumstances would have guaranteed the continued confidentiality of all those parts of the papers which were not mentioned or quoted open court (see the Harriet Harman case).
Among other stipulations by the Court, all your client’s experts were to be reminded of their duties with respect to the implied undertaking , and all copies of the diaries were to be returned or (if I agreed) certified as destroyed upon the conclusion of proceedings.
In the event, twelve short passages (each of one or two sentences) from the diaries were quoted, as you can confirm by reference to the transcripts , and I provided your firm with a schedule of those passages which alone had thus come into the public domain.
I have already had cause, through my lawyers Amhurst, Brown, Colombotti, to object to the fact that passages of the diaries not quoted in Court have been published in the United States, among others by Mr Kenneth Stern of the American Jewish Congress ( right ). The correspondence is on file. You eventually returned to me through my lawyers one set of pages copied from the diaries, retrieved, you said, from the United States. There are, no doubt, other sets which you have not returned.
It now appears that your firm did not properly advise Lipstadt of her obligations, as she has posted on her website **** the entire Discovery documents made available by me, including facsimiles of letters and diaries, and included in volumes of documents that were to have been used by her expert on “extremism”. That report was subsequently withdrawn, and the expert was not called.
Such publication is a serious contempt by your client, and I will not hesitate to apply to the Courts for relief in that respect, and for damages for the these violations of privacy and