A five-person panel has been appointed to consider the recommendations of the Leveson Report in Scotland. The expert group, to be chaired by former Solicitor General and Senator of the College of Justice Lord McCluskey, features Scots legal experts and representatives of journalism and those affected by malpractice. Read the rest of this entry »
Scotland: Panel Appointed to consider Leveson Recommendations
13 12 2012Comments : 1 Comment »
Categories : Leveson Inquiry, Scotland
Media Standards Trust: Response to the Leveson Report
13 12 2012
The Media Standards Trust supports Lord Justice Leveson’s proposal for a voluntary system of independent regulation. Lord Justice Leveson writes that the previous system of self-regulation, led by the PCC, “was simultaneously a panacea, a misnomer and a contradiction in terms” (1.4, p.1515). He says Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Leveson Inquiry, Media Regulation
Law of Libel and the Defamation Bill – Gavin Phillipson
13 12 2012
It is wrong to treat free speech as being a superior or primary right in a democracy as some reform campaigners have. Many of the values underpinning free speech – truth, individual autonomy and development, the maintenance of a democratic society – also underpin reputation itself. We should value robust protection for reputation for many of the same reasons that we value free speech itself. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Libel
