Copyright 2000 PR Newswire Europe Limited Press Association Newsfile May 5, 2000, Friday 07:53 AM Eastern Time "IRVING CASE VICTORS SEEK #500,000 COSTS 'ON ACCOUNT'" by Jan Colley, PA News A High Court judge was today asked to order historian David Irving to pay #500,000 on account towards the defence costs incurred in his failed libel action over a claim that he was a Holocaust denier. Mr Irving was at London's Law Courts to hear Heather Rogers, counsel for Penguin Books, make the application on behalf of them and of Deborah Lipstadt, author of Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. Last month, Mr Justice Gray rejected 62-year-old Mr Irving's action over the book which he claimed had destroyed his livelihood and generated waves of hatred against him. Mr Irving, the author of Hitler's War, was facing a defence costs bill estimated at over #2 million after the judge ruled in the strongest terms that he was both anti-Semitic and a racist. Miss Rogers told Mr Justice Gray today that over #1 million had already been paid out to defence experts, who compiled evidence for the 32-day case, and that defence solicitors had not yet produced their own bill of costs. She argued that the costs officer, who the judge has ordered should make a detailed assessment of what was due, should deal with Mr Irving's claim that the defence's experts and counsel were paid too much. She submitted that the judge had the power to make an order for payment of #500,000 on account of costs and that it was a waste of time and money to argue the matter further in court. The hearing is expected to end later today. == The Times of London May 2, 2000 (Diary) Revised brief DAVID IRVING, the revisionist historian, has been dumped by his solicitors on "ideological grounds" as he battles to reverse the ruling in his failed High Court libel action. Irving, who will appear in the High Court today to appeal against his liability for the vast costs of the case against the American academic Deborah Lipstadt, has been told by Goldsmiths solicitors that they will not represent him beyond today's hearing. Their decision - which they say is due to the opposition of one of the partners, rather than the fear that they won't get paid - comes five days before the deadline for Irving to appeal against the judgment, in which the judge branded him a Holocaust denier. "I think this will only generate more anti-Semitic feeling," claims Irving, who believes the total costs of the case will come to around #5 million. "They were recommended to me by Count Nikolai Tolstoy, who assured me they were fearless. People do this to me, then accuse me of being anti-Semitic when I complain. It is against the Law Society's code of conduct. I will ask the judge to force them to continue representing me." ==
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