But if Irving loses, he will have to pay Lipstadt's legal costs. He'll be finished. With Irving, it's difficult to believe that even if he loses everything, that he will be finished. A nice adventure. The trial of Irving vs. Penguin Books and Lipstadt is proceeding with unprecedented, almost fair, world-wide publicity.
British papers carry paperback sized photos of Irving nearly every day.
The courtroom is filled up. Some visitors peer through the double glass doors for a while, then walk away because they hear nothing. On the bench sits Justice Gray, bedecked in a wig and full length black robe, crimson scarf and white cuffs. Below the bench, on the left, is the defence crew of about twenty individuals. When he tires, he develops dowager's hump, and he constantly corrects his wig, which falls on his presbiopic eyeglasses.