Harry Potter author J K Rowling has been "fully vindicated and her reputation restored" following a newspaper's apology over allegations that she wrote a "sob story" containing false claims about her time as a single mother, the High Court was told today.

The reading of the statement in open court follows a subsidiary libel dispute over the wording of that statement.

The publisher of the Daily Mail had accepted that the allegations were "completely false and indefensible", published an apology and undertaken
not to repeat them, Mr Justice Warby was told at the High Court.