JK Rowling:
24 November
The Harry Potter author told the Inquiry that she had taken action against publications about 50 times over alleged breaches of privacy and misreporting as part of a 12-year running battle with newspapers, which she said had included being driven out the first house she owned because of the constant presence of photographers.
On one occasion she found a note from a journalist inside her then five-year-old daughter's school bag and in another incident she claimed a reporter from the Scottish edition of The Sun had contacted her daughter's headmaster with a false claim she had upset her classmates by revealing that Harry Potter died in the final book in the series.
However, Ms Rowling also stressed that she strongly supported freedom of speech, saying: "I think there are truly heroic journalists in Britain.”