Dinah Gwen Lison Rose KC was born on 16 July 1965 and is a British barrister.
12 Facts About Dinah Rose
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Dinah Rose has been President of Magdalen College, Oxford since 2020.
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Dinah Rose studied modern history at Magdalen College, Oxford, and law at City University.
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Dinah Rose was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1989, and took silk in 2006.
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Dinah Rose has appeared in many high-profile cases, including representing "extraordinary rendition" victim Binyam Mohamed at his Court of Appeal hearing.
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Dinah Rose worked on the judicial review of the Attorney General's decision to drop the investigation into alleged bribes of Saudi officials by BAE Systems.
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Dinah Rose represented the family of a child who had been denied a place at the prominent Jewish comprehensive school, JFS, because his mother was not recognised as Jewish by the Office of the Chief Rabbi.
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Dinah Rose appeared for Julian Assange in Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority before the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, in his unsuccessful appeal against extradition to Sweden.
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In March 2013, Dinah Rose ended her party membership of the Liberal Democrats in protest at Nick Clegg's support for the coalition government's justice and security bill describing it as a "betrayal of the party's guiding principles".
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Dinah Rose took up the post in September 2020, becoming the 43rd President of the college.
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In January 2021, Dinah Rose was criticised by former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and Oxford alumnus Edwin Cameron for acting for the Cayman Islands government in a case opposing the legalisation of same-sex marriage.
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In May 2023, The Times newspaper apologised to Dinah Rose and agreed to pay her damages and her legal costs in respect of an article in the newspaper which suggested that she had not had a professional obligation to take the case on behalf of the Cayman Islands government, under the cab-rank rule.