The Prime Minister, David Cameron, has expressed “serious concerns and misgivings” over bringing in laws to underpin any new body to regulate the press. Mr Cameron told MPs that legislation backing a regulatory body underpinned by statute would “cross the Rubicon” by writing elements of press regulation into the law for the “first time“. Because of this, Mr Cameron, is “not convinced at this stage that statute is necessary to achieve Lord Justice Leveson’s objectives”. Continue reading
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As the date of publication of the Leveson report approaches the self-interested spin machine of the popular press is going into overdrive. Today’s “Mail on Sunday” headline was “Cameron set to defy Leveson on law to allow state-controlled press… for now.” The story, attributed to “senior sources”, was to the effect that the Prime Minister was Continue reading
In July, prompted by Section 21 orders from Lord Justice Leveson, many of the UK’s big news organisations offered qualified support for the plan put forward by Lord Black and Lord Hunt for a new system of press self-regulation based on contract law (though none have signed up to it yet). Continue reading
The Leveson Inquiry has had its final hearing in its inquiry into “the culture, practices, and ethics of the press”. The first hearing was on 6 September 2011 and the Inquiry has has received evidence in 26 weeks of sittings. Lord Justice Leveson now has the summer to write his report on Part 1 of his inquiry. Continue reading
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