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The Trustee of the Estate of late English author Adrian Jacobs announced he has now met
the order of the English Court of Appeal, paying 50,000 sterling into court, enabling the
appeal and "Adventures of Willy The Wizard" copyright breach lawsuit against JK Rowling
and her publishers Bloomsbury to go ahead.

The full trial is scheduled for February 2012.

In October 2010 the High Court rejected JK Rowling's application to strike out the case
against her. The High Court was concerned that despite requests, JK Rowling had refused
to disclose her original manuscripts and notebooks, which she claimed showed the genesis
of Harry Potter.

The Court held that until she disclosed her manuscripts, the Estate could not evaluate the
strength of the case against her. Rather than disclosing documents, JK Rowling's lawyers
obtained a court order requiring the Estate to pay the author and her publishers over 1.4
million sterling as security.

In April The Trustee appealed, arguing that this vast sum would "stifle" the lawsuit. "Why
has JK Rowling persistently refused to produce her first Harry Potter manuscripts and
famous crammed notebooks?," asks Mr Allen. "Her lawyers even claimed they no longer
exist, and ignored a court deadline to exchange a list of documents. We have been asking
JK Rowling for sight of these crucial documents for many years". The case alleges that JK
Rowling used Adrian Jacobs' visionary 1987 work "The Adventures of Willy the Wizard" to
develop her Harry Potter series, copying many new expressions of ideas from Jacobs'
work, including Wizard Chess, Wizard Trains & Hospitals, Wizard Gambling and
Newspapers and copied Jacobs' 1987 storyline concept "The year of wizard contests" when
writing Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire published in 2000.

The dispute casts doubt on JK Rowling's account of creating Harry Potter on a train. Her
literary agent Chris Little claims the first draft chapters of Harry Potter came from
J.K.Rowling in 1995 but the Estate maintains the manuscript was in his hands at least a
year earlier in 1994.

The Estate claims that Little was also Jacobs literary agent.

In July 2011 The Trustee will also ask the Court of Appeal to order the return of costs spent
by the Estate successfully contesting J.K Rowling's failed attempt to strike out the case.

Paul Allen says: "We welcome the opportunity to prove our case at trial next February and
exposing the inconsistencies in the account of how J.K Rowling came to write the Harry
Potter books."

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