As a consummate expert in defamation law, Richard Rampton KC was the ideal barrister to conduct one of the most important trials ever held in the London courts in defence of the truth.
Rampton, who has died aged 82, led the courtroom case against the Holocaust denier David Irving in a hearing that became a textbook example of how to combat fake news. It was memorialised in the David Hare-scripted film Denial (2016).
