Hacking inquiry – Hacked off

A statutory backstop for press regulation could damage freedom of speech, the Leveson Inquiry has heard. Jonathan Heawood, director of English PEN, a charity supporting free expression, told the inquiry co-regulation was a veiled form of statutory regulation, and said he had never seen a model incorporating the best of self-regulation and state intervention. He [...]

Attacks on the Leveson Inquiry, and a thorough debate on corporate governance and new forms of press regulation marked the latest Leveson Inquiry seminars held on Wednesday, October 12, at the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre. Eve Salomon, chair of the Internet Watch Foundation, chair of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and a former [...]

Speakers Hugh Grant, Dan Sabbagh (Guardian – head of media and technology), Don Foster MP (DCMS Lib Dem spokesman), John Kampfner (chief executive of Index on Censorship) and Charlotte Harris (lawyer – Mishcon de Reya). Chair: Dr Evan Harris (Hacked Off campaign advisor/Social Liberal Forum) at our event “Phone Hacking, Privacy and Libel  – the [...]