On 1 May 2014 Lord Justice Maurice Kay (pic) dismissed the application by the Press Standards Board of Finance (“PressBoF”) for for permission to appeal against the dismissal of their judicial review application. No further appeal routes are available and the case is now concluded. Continue reading
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The people behind IPSO, the big newspaper companies’ PCC retread, have announced the initial membership of a body called the Regulatory Finance Company (RFC), the Guardian has reported. Continue reading
Having lost the public argument about press self-regulation, the big newspaper companies are now trying to get their way by other means. Letters published online show that over the past month press bosses have tried to strong-arm Sir David Normington the official responsible for the first step in appointing the Royal Charter body that will inspect future press self-regulators. Continue reading
Having seen their bid to block the Royal Charter thoroughly rubbished by two High Court judges on 30 October, the big newspaper groups are going back for more. A statement from PressBoF, the people behind the discredited Press Complaints Commission, said it was appealing against the judges’ refusal of permission for a judicial review of the Privy Council’s decision to reject its bid for a Royal Charter. Continue reading
The application by PressBoF for an injunction to restrain the consideration by the Privy Council of the Cross-Party Royal Charter on Self-Regulation of the Press [pdf] was dismissed today after a hearing before Richards LJ and Sales J. The Court also refused PressBoF permission to apply for judicial review of the Privy Council’s rejection of its proposed Royal Charter on the basis that there was no arguable case. Continue reading
The application by the Press Standards Board of Finance Limited (“PressBoF”) for an an injunction to restrain the grant of the Cross-Party Charter has been listed for a hearing tomorrow, 30 October 2013, at 10.30am in Court 68 at the Royal Courts of Justice before Lord Justice Richards and Mr Justice Sales. Continue reading
On 24 October 2013, it was announced that the newspaper industry’s associations, through PressBoF, were applying to the High Court for judicial review of the decision to reject their application for a Royal Charter. This application was not in fact issued until 28 October 2013. Continue reading
Newspaper bosses squeal in sham anguish, but they knew better than anyone that their petition for a Royal Charter was never likely to be more than a spoiling manoeuvre, and that in the end it would have to be binned.
On every level it was an inadequate document, so that if it had been a school exam paper, even the most sympathetic teacher would have had to fail it. Continue reading
In a statement to the House of Commons this afternoon the Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport, Maria Miller said that the Committee of the Privy Council was “unable to recommend” that the Press proposal for a Royal Charter be granted. Continue reading
The editors and proprietors of national newspapers have more than 60 years’ experience of manoeuvring to avoid independent and effective regulation. Again and again down the decades they have bullied politicians into pulling back from the measures needed to curtail abuses of press freedom such as distortion, fabrication, intrusion and intimidation. Continue reading
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