Soldiers' Charity set for JK Rowling windfall

Best-selling author JK Rowling has accepted a substantial donation to charity from a law firm which breached her confidentiality by revealing she was writing under a pseudonym.

Harry Potter’s creator brought proceedings in London’s High Court against Chris Gossage, a partner at Russells and a friend of his, Judith Callegari.

Her solicitor, Jenny Afia, told Mr Justice Tugendhat that Rowling was revealed in The Sunday Times as the writer of crime novel The Cuckoo’s Calling, which was published under the name of Robert Galbraith.