Toben case to resume

From the Australian Jewish News:

Toben case resumes later this month

A DIRECTIONS hearing into a contempt case against Holocaust denier Dr Frederick Toben has been relisted for the Federal Court in Sydney on May 21.

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) brought the case against Dr Toben of Adelaide earlier this year, alleging that he has repeatedly violated a 2002 Federal Court order prohibiting him from distributing Holocaust-denial material and posting it on his Adelaide Institute website.

Dr Toben, who initially conducted his own defence, later claimed he wanted a lawyer, but told a February 6 directions hearing that the only lawyer available to him could not practice until May, as his certificate of practice was suspended.

The ECAJ claimed Dr Toben’s continued publication of Holocaust-denial material on the website is in contempt of the Federal Court, which made its landmark 2002 ruling after a case spearheaded by then ECAJ president Jeremy Jones.

News brief · 11 May 2007