Last week, 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). This followed the Prime… Read more »
The chairman of the Press Complaints Commission has said any “statutory regulation” of the press would be “adversarial”. Lord Hunt gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry yesterday and this morning, to outline his proposal for a reformed self-regulatory system. Yesterday, Press Board of Finance chairman Lord Black said any attempt to regulate the press under… Read more »
Lord Black has warned the Leveson Inquiry a regulator with statutory underpinning will become a “target” for the press. Black chairman of the Press Board of Finance, the body that funds the Press Complaints Commission, said today decisions by a new regulator based in statute will be constantly challenged by publishers. Black – also a… Read more »
by Brian Cathcart There are at least two ways of looking at the proposals for regulation aired at the Leveson inquiry by Lord Black, who represents editors and proprietors. His way is to say that this is a rigorous system of “independently-led self-regulation” that preserves us from the philosophically and fundamentally unacceptable possibility of statutory… Read more »
The press are aware of the threat of statutory regulation, the chairman of the Press Board of Finance has said. Lord Black, chairman of the body responsible for financing the Press Complaints Commission, said the industry was proud of self-regulation but understood a need for reform. He told the Leveson Inquiry: “The appetite for change… Read more »
