According to David Cameron, the key test of Lord Justice Leveson’s recommendations is that they satisfy the ordinary people most seriously harmed by the failed system. From the moment he initiated the…

Imagine how the press would be dealing with the Leveson Report and its sequel if an industry other than their own was involved. Here is what has happened. A whole industry has…

by Brian Cathcart A poll for the Sunday Times last weekend asked people whether they thought David Cameron was opposing ‘new laws’ to underpin press regulation (a) as a matter of principle…

by Brian Cathcart The national papers are desperately scratching around for the names of people who might be regarded as sufficiently independent to serve on their new regulator. Let’s give them some…

by Hugh Tomlinson QC According to the “Mail on Sunday” the Leveson assessor and Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti has “delivered the bombshell verdict that his demand for compulsory press regulation would be…

by Brian Cathcart Let’s be clear about what Lord Justice Leveson recommended and did not recommend. He did not recommend statutory regulation of the press. Instead, he allowed the press to set…

Hacked Off has never proposed a model of regulation. We started by campaigning for a public inquiry and when it came along we took the view that it was up to the…

by Brian Cathcart What do proprietors and editors want? Behind the bluster about press freedom and the hare-brained conspiracy theories about Leveson, what are they really after? The answer, at least in…

Responding to claims that David Cameron has already made his mind up on the future shape of press regulation, days before Lord Justice Leveson is due to hand over his report, Director…

The first detailed analysis of the press industry’s own plan for press regulation – the scheme proposed by the papers to the Leveson inquiry – indicate that it would be dominated and…