A report that made damning findings against Sally Dowling, SC, could not be summarily ignored or derided with intemperate language, a former Bar Association president said.

Legal heavyweights across the country have locked in behind Sally Dowling, SC, before the release of a parliamentary report about her office.

A NSW upper house committee has released a damaging report about Director of Public Prosecutions Sally Dowling, SC. But MPs are divided.