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 »
by Brian Cathcart ‘So you’re in favour of the government taking control of newspapers, then?’ Thus Jeremy Paxman to Hugh Grant on Newsnight. And a moment later: ‘But you do want statutory regulation?’ And then again ‘So you would regulate newspapers?’ It is a time-honoured Paxman technique, and no one would argue with his right… Read more »
Lord Justice Leveson has recognised a request from the Hacked Off campaign for the Operation Motorman database to be published. The judge said David Sherborne, barrister for the core participant victims, was welcome to formally submit the request if he thought it would highlight the culture and practice of the press rather than “who did… Read more »
by Brian Cathcart Lord Hunt says he is winding up the Press Complaints Commission, of which he is chairman, and will launch a new body “with teeth”. He has discussed this planned body at the Leveson inquiry and elsewhere, and his ideas have at least four significant weaknesses. The first weakness The new body will… Read more »
The future of press regulation must be swift and cheap for the public, several parties have agreed in a debate at the House of Commons. Hugh Tomlinson QC and former FIA president Max Mosley put forward proposed regulatory systems to an assembled audience at a Hacked Off and Media Standards Trust event last night. Lord… Read more »
