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Commenting on David Cameron’s decision to end cross-party talks on implementing the Leveson Report, Professor Brian Cathcart, Executive Director, Hacked Off said: This is a shameless betrayal of the victims of press abuse. It also raises two fingers to all those members of the public who wanted to see change after the Milly Dowler phone-hacking… Read more »
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The press have spent the past few days telling us that Leveson will be decided this week; culminating in a “historical” cross-party deal in the next 48 hours. We thought we would take the opportunity to remind you of some of the commitments David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband made to parliament, the country… Read more »
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by Hugh Tomlinson QC According to Lord Justice Leveson, one of the key requirements of a new independent press regulator is an “arbitration service”. The recommendation is that the regulator should provide “an arbitral process in relation to civil legal claims against subscribers, drawing on independent legal experts of high reputation and ability on a… Read more »
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Amendments tabled to Enterprise Bill would free up Libel Reform legislation The crossbench peer Lord Skidelsky has tabled amendments to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill (ERR), to give full effect to the majority of the Leveson recommendations for reform of press regulation. The amendments, creating a ‘Recognition Body’ for an independent self-regulator for the… Read more »
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Hacked Off called on the three main political parties today to reject pressure from newspaper bosses to water down the Leveson recommendations on press regulation. Attending cross-party talks on Leveson, Hacked Off representatives relayed to ministers the outrage of many victims of press abuse at Conservative plans for a Royal Charter that would concede many… Read more »
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As Lord Justice Leveson said in his report, the press has ‘no real appetite for an effective and adequate system of regulation’. Not only did he show in detail how the Press Complaints Commission had been ‘run for the benefit of the press not of the public’, but he demonstrated that even in 2012 things… Read more »