Press owners’ body Pressbof has launched a legal bid to derail the Government’s proposed Royal Charter on press regulation.

And publishers have announced plans to press ahead with the establishment of their own Independent Press Standards Organisation regulator which is instead compliant with the Pressbof Royal Charter.

The Pressbof Royal Charter was submitted to the Privy Council for consideration in April and rejected on 8 October. Now publishers are launching a judicial review bid to get that decision reversed.