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Hacked Off’s submission to the CMA in response to their Fox/Sky bid provisional findings report
Submission by Hacked Off in relation to the CMA’s report on provisional findings on broadcasting standards (‘the report’). Hacked Off campaigns for free and accountable journalism. We have the support of many…
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IPSO’s sham arbitration system
IPSO has announced what it falsely claims to be a new “Leveson-style” arbitration scheme in its latest attempt to mislead the public into believing that it is implementing the recommendations of the…
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Latest court bid by corporate press to wreck Leveson end in humiliation
By Brian Cathcart How can press bosses justify these costly legal failures at a time when print sales are in freefall and they are closing local papers by the fistful? …
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Should Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 be in force by now? – Christopher Whitmey
The following is a guest post and originally appeared on Inforrm’s Blog – it is republished with thanks. On 23 June 2017 the Department of Culture Media and Sport replied to a Freedom of Information…
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Seamus Milne and the ‘Mystery Blonde’: Five years after Leveson the press still ignores privacy – Hugh Tomlinson QC
On Tuesday 11 July 2017, the Times ran a story under the headline “Corbyn adviser Seamus Milne in clinch ‘with lawyer’”. The story was illustrated by long lens photographs of Mr Milne and…
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Mirror phone hacking: don’t let them fool you, most victims were ordinary people
By Brian Cathcart Famous targets get the headlines but three-quarters of those illegally hacked by newspapers were people you’ve never heard of. It has become routine: another batch of phone hacking victims…
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Dacre v Byline: A blustering bully falls silent
By Brian Cathcart On 10 March lawyers acting for the editor of the Daily Mail and two of his colleagues wrote to the crowdfunded journalism site Byline Media demanding that three…
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“Legs-It” Get a life? Get a better Regulator.
The Daily Mail has told critics of its “Legs-It” front page to “get a life” as the story was slammed as sexist and out of touch but the real story is how…
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Hacked Off’s response to the Leveson Consultation
Our response to the Consultation can be found here. Further to our main response, please also find below further evidence and analysis in support of our position. The following publications produced by Hacked…
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Implementing Leveson: the Press misrepresents a YouGov poll to advance a self-serving case against its own regulation
The press has, over the past few weeks, been running a hysterical anti-Leveson campaign based on the absurd “falsehood that press freedom is under threat from IMPRESS” and a “vindictive tycoon”.…
