Matrix Chambers silk Heather Rogers QC is leaving the set to join Doughty Street Chambers.

Rogers, who took silk in 2006, specialises in media and privacy issues, acting both in a claimant and defendant capacity for newspapers. In 2003 she acted for BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan after he reported that Labour had ‘sexed up’ a dossier on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. His report culminated in a judicial inquiry headed by Lord ­Hutton.

Doughty Street director Robin Jackson said Rogers was moving sets because she was keen to diversify her practice area.

“We have the opportunity to provide Heather with a new direction within the media practice,” he said. “She also wants to diversify a little into public law and we have a burgeoning international practice.”

The move comes a week after Brick Court lured ­retiring Law Lord, Lord Hoffmann as a door tenant. Hoffmann will join the set as an arbitrator and will also handle mediation work.

Matrix also brought four new members on board in November (The Lawyer, 24 November).