Richard Rampton QC (born 12 April 1941) is a leading British libel lawyer. Events 467 - Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He has been involved in several high profile cases, with his defence of Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books against David Irving among the most famous. Deborah Esther Lipstadt (born March 18 1947 New York City) is an American Historian and author of the book Denying the Holocaust. Penguin Books is a British Publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. David John Cawdell Irving (born 24 March 1938 is a British writer specializing in the Military history of World War II. In this case, he represented them against accusations of libel after Lipstadt accused Irving of being a Holocaust-denier. Holocaust denial is the claim that the Genocide of Jews during World War II —usually referred to as The Holocaust —did not occur in the He also represented McDonald's in the McLibel case, where the company controversially sued two members of the "London Greenpeace" environmental campaigning group. The McDonald's Restaurants v Morris & Steel, colloquially the McLibel case, was a long-running English court action for Libel London Greenpeace was an Anarchist environmentalist activist collective that existed between 1971 and 2001
Rampton's earlier cases include Andrew Neil (editor of the Sunday Times) vs Peregrine Worsthorne, Lord Aldington vs Count Nikolai Tolstoy and Gillian Taylforth vs News of the World. Andrew Ferguson Neil (born 21 May 1949 Paisley, Scotland) is a Scottish Journalist and broadcaster. The Sunday Times is a Sunday Broadsheet Newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Sir Peregrine Gerard Worsthorne (born December 22, 1923) is a British journalist writer and broadcaster Toby Austin Richard William Low 1st Baron Aldington, KCMG, CBE, DSO, TD, PC ( 25 May 1914 – 7 December Count Nikolai Dmitrievich Tolstoy-Miloslavsky (born 23 June 1935) is a prominent Russo-British Historian, author and parliamentary candidate Gillian Taylforth (born 14 August, 1955 in London) is an English actress The News of the World is a British Tabloid Newspaper published every Sunday He also successfully represented George Galloway MP against the Daily Telegraph over claims he took £375,000 from Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime. George Galloway (born 16 August 1954 in Dundee) is a Scottish Politician, author and talkshow host noted for his Left-wing views confrontational style For "The Daily Telegraph" in Australia see The Daily Telegraph (Australia. Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti ( Arabic: ar صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي --> April 28 1937 &ndash December 30
Educated at Bryanston School and Queen's College, Oxford University, Richard Rampton was called to the Bar in November 1965 (Inner Temple) and was appointed a QC (Queen's Counsel) in 1987. Bryanston School is a Co-educational independent boarding school in Blandford, north Dorset, England, near the village of Bryanston The Queen's College, founded 1341 is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the The Call to the Bar is a legal Term of art in most Common law jurisdictions The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice in London which may call members to Queen's Counsel ( postnominal QC) &ndash known as King's Counsel ( KC) during the reign of a male sovereign &ndash are
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