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United Kingdom - Fine for Rowling blab

A lawyer who blew J. K. Rowling’s cover when she wrote a detective novel under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith has been fined 1,000 pounds (US$1,650) and received a written warning from a British legal watchdog.

Chris Gossage, a partner at Russells Solicitors, which represented the Harry Potter author, leaked one of the publishing world’s biggest secrets to his wife’s best friend — who then tweeted it to a journalist. Rowling, Britain’s best-selling author, was furious.




 

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