JK Rowling 'vindicated' over Mail article

• 21 May 2015
• BBC News

JK Rowling sued the Daily Mail over an article published in September 2013

JK Rowling feels "fully vindicated and her reputation restored" after the Daily Mail's apology to the author was read out in London's High Court.

A 2013 article suggested Rowling had told a false "sob story" about being stigmatised by churchgoers in the '90s.

The Mail printed an apology and paid substantial damages to Rowling in May 2014, but challenged Rowling's right to give a court statement about the case.

Last week the Court of Appeal dismissed the newspaper's objections.
It paved the way for Thursday's unilateral statement, which was read out by solicitor Keith Schilling on behalf of Rowling, as part of the libel settlement.

During her successful libel case, the author said the newspaper's story was "premised on a false picture" of an article she had written 10 days earlier for single parents' charity Gingerbread.

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