by Brian Cathcart If Lord Justice Leveson’s recommendations are implemented in full, does that mean that it will be easier for police officers conducting investigations to seize confidential research materials from journalists?…

by Dr Rosa Malley The Daily Mail argues (Leveson and a gag on whistleblowers) that an exclusive it published exposing a cover-up at the NHS would not be possible if the Leveson…

by Hugh Tomlinson QC One of the key recommendations of the Leveson Report is that a new independent press regulator should provide a “fair, quick and inexpensive” arbitration service to provide access…

by Brian Cathcart Over many years, politicians of all parties got too close to editors and proprietors in a way that damaged the public interest, and one result was the persistent failure…

by Hugh Tomlinson QC The Leveson Report is a careful compromise designed to protect both freedom of expression and privacy.  Lord Justice Leveson accepted the arguments of the press that a system…

Hacked Off, and the victims of press abuses for which it speaks, have three principled objections to the use of a Royal Charter instead of legislation in relation to the underpinning of…

by Brian Cathcart Amid all the manoeuvring by Cameron & Co as they try to avoid making editors and proprietors of the national press genuinely accountable for what they do, the idea…

Commenting on a letter published today from UK press bodies to the Culture Secretary, Maria Miller, claiming progress is being made towards industry-wide agreement on press regulation, Professor Brian Cathcart, director of…

National newspapers, their editors and others have raised concern that Lord Justice Leveson has made recommendations in relation to third party complaints that are either unreasonable or unworkable. (A third party complaint…

While politicians squabble over what to do after Leveson, here are six tests by which Hacked Off will judge any plan for press regulation in this country. A new system must… 1)…