JK Rowling’s copyright row continues

HARRY POTTER author JK Rowling may have to defend herself at the High Court against an allegation of copying her ideas from an earlier obscure children’s book writer.

Mr Justice Kitchin ruled yesterday the claim by the estate of the late Adrian Jacobs had a chance of success but this was “improbable”.

He refused applications by Rowling and her publishers, Bloomsbury, for an immediate judgment dismissing the case as having no chance of success.