by Brian Cathcart A few days ago something happened which we in Hacked Off had been hoping to arrange for many months. For the first time, a large group of people who…

Mr Justice Tugendhat’s judgment granting an order under the Protection from Harassment Act against the photographers, after an application made by Hugh Grant last Friday. Judgment in full

Lord Justice Leveson has challenged Associated Newspapers’ claim that editors could be compelled to join a regulator without being forced by law. Associated Newspapers’ barrister, Jonathan Caplan QC, repeated to the Leveson Inquiry…

Five awkward questions the Select Committee could ask James Murdoch to see if he was telling the truth back in July. Was he told the reasons for the Gordon Taylor pay-off in…

As the Leveson Inquiry shapes up and witness hearings approach, reporters have been wondering about how much legal protection they have to cover the proceedings. Questions have arisen around the issues of…

by Brian Cathcart What lies behind the Daily Mail’s assault on Hugh Grant? Could it be conventional piety? Hardly: have you looked at Mail Online lately? It is an artful mix of…

Read a full transcript of the interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme (2 November 2011) below: Sarah Montague (SM): At start of the year, you could scarcely look at a newspaper…

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…

by Brian Cathcart The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, has joined the debate about press reform with a speech warning of the risk of throwing the baby of freedom of expression out…

*From Media Standards Trust Talk about missing the story. The Sun, the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, The Guardian, even Newsnight all failed to lead with the genuinely newsworthy aspect of Wednesday’s Leveson…