On top of her crowded litigation schedule, particularly in the field of media law, the barrister Heather Rogers made time for pro bono work.
In 2012-13 she acted as adviser to the unpaid international commission of judges, which I chaired, on the still unsolved 1961 air crash in what was then British-ruled Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, that resulted in the deaths of the United Nations secretary general, Dag Hammarskjöld, and 15 other people.
Since some of the suspicious characters involved in the story were alive and litigious, the advice of Heather and her junior, Ben Silverstone, was important. The eventual report, which can be found online at “Hammarskjöld commission report”, was accepted by the UN as a basis for reopening its own inquiry.
