Real History and the Press The David Irving [Photo by Michael Hentz for The New York Times] Letter to the Editor •• London, •• The Times • Letters to the Editor • 1 Pennington Street London E1 9XN 020 7782 5046 ltrs fax today’s ” AR-online” again AR-Online recent issues: July 1999 June 1999 May 1999 April 1999 March 1999 February 1999 January 1999 December 1998 November 1998 October 1998 September 1998 August 1998 July 1998 London,
[email protected] Sir,– Mark Bateman of Davenport Lyons, who acted for Penguin Books Ltd., a lawyer whose assistance during the recent trial I confess I found very helpful, now writes a high falutin article ( The Times, Law section, April 18 ) justifying the £2m costs that Penguin incurred defending my libel action. Had Penguin Books bothered to have the book read for libel they could have avoided the action altogether. Mr Bateman also knows very well that
on September 11, 1998 [ see next panel ] I privately offered to Penguin to separate them from the action if they paid £500 to a charity for the limbless, an offer which they invited me to repeat in writing. Had they accepted it, and had I won against the author Prof. Lipstadt , I would of course have had no prospect of recovering costs and damages from the remaining defendant, a US citizen living outside the jurisdiction. In August 1999 I repeated the same offer to both defendants.
His crocodile tears may impress the shareholders, but not me. Yours faithfully David Irving