Lord Grade: ‘Exemplary damages a dead parrot…catastrophe if publishers don’t join IPSO’
Former chairman of both the BBC and ITV Lord Grade has said that swift introduction of the new Independent Press…
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Fleet Street editor says libel fears could force industry to support Government’s Royal Charter regulator
Newspapers will sign up to the Government’s Royal Charter once they start getting hit for costs in libel courts a…
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We are realising too late that the state supports a free press like the rope supports a hanging man
The judge told the jury in the trial of two former News of the World editors for alleged phone-hacking that…
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Pressbof launches fresh appeal against Government Royal Charter decision
The newspaper and magazine industry has today lodged its formal appeal against the High Court decision not to grant a…
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Government appears content to let publishers ignore Royal Charter and run the risk of punitive libel and privacy case costs
Culture Secretary Maria Miller's apparent admission that the controversial Royal Charter on press regulation will be 'redundant' if the industry's…
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Marr: Could publishers’ IPSO regulator make Royal Charter redundant? Miller: ‘Subject to them doing it’
Culture Secretary Maria Miller appeared to indicate that the cross-party Royal Charter on press regulation passed this week could be…
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Maria Miller says Royal Charter route best way to avoid ‘statutory regulation of the press’
The threat of statutory press regulation is still remains despite the passing of the Government’s Royal Charter, culture secretary Maria…
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Court of Appeal rejects publishers’ injunction bid, Queen signs cross-party Royal Charter
The Queen has given her approval to a new Royal Charter governing the regulation of the press. The monarch set…
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