By the time Heather Rogers, who has died of a pulmonary embolism aged 64, became a Queen’s (now King’s) counsel in 2006, she had established herself as one of the leading media law barristers of her generation.
A champion of free speech, with many successes as a defendant barrister acting on behalf of news organisations, she was a strict adherent to the “cab rank” rule and acted for claimants and others as well, taking cases against publications that had over-stepped the mark.
