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 »
by Brian Cathcart So it has begun. With the big-name politicians drifting away from the Leveson inquiry and the hearings turning towards the technicalities of press regulation, the newspaper industry has finally grabbed its megaphone back and started bellowing out its message. Everybody knows it is impossible to argue with a man who has a… Read more »
The Deputy Prime Minister has told the Leveson Inquiry enough opportunities have been given to a “pure judge and jury self-regulation method” to prove itself. Nick Clegg said this morning he believed steps needed to be taken to protect freedom of speech, but also to ensure against the abuse of power in the press. He… Read more »
