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The Guardian - UK
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Haroon Siddique

Lawyer Dinah Rose KC sues the Times for libel

Dinah Rose KC
The Bar Standards Board apologised to Dinah Rose, clarifying it had not found her to have been ‘reckless’ or to have acted inappropriately. Photograph: Kate Peters

A leading lawyer is suing the Times for libel over a report relating to a complaint against her to the barristers’ watchdog for England and Wales.

The story concerned Dinah Rose KC representing the Cayman Islands government in opposing same-sex marriage in a case at the privy council, for which she was criticised by LGBTQ+ rights campaigners, including some students at the University of Oxford, where she is president of Magdalen College.

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