1.   Due to the nature of English libel laws, which favor the person suing, the onus was on Lipstadt to prove the Holocaust actually happened.

2.   He promptly showed one of the less attractive aspects of his personality by suing under the strict English libel laws to make his confreres stop calling him nasty names.

3.   The victory left Lipstadt with an unusually personal understanding of the vagaries of English libel law.

4.   McVicar had also appealed on the grounds that the rule which requires defendants in English libel cases to prove the truth of defamatory statements was unfair.