Hacking inquiry – Hacked off

The chairman of the Press Complaints Commission has been asked to keep Leveson informed of his progress on drawing up plans for a new regulator. Lord Hunt explained some of his proposals for a new regulator for the industry during his evidence at the Leveson Inquiry this afternoon. Robert Jay QC, inquiry counsel, asked Hunt [...]

Richard Peppiatt was a reporter at the Daily Star for over two years. He also worked for six months at a news agency called Ferrari’s before his spell at the Daily Star, freelanced for the Mail on Sunday as a reporter for nearly five months, as well as for a variety of other tabloid titles. [...]

You do not become Lord Chief Justice without being very bright indeed and awfully judicious. But if I may be so bold, I’d like to suggest that he might have made quite an important error in his speech last week about reform of press self-regulation. Lord Judge, in his defence of the current system of [...]