Pre-publication advice requirement dropped – but Leveson law stays in Defamation Bill after final reading in Lords
An amended version of the Leveson law was passed today by the House of Lords in the third and final…
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Peter Preston: ‘Leveson sees journalism as an exercise in providing cases for the courts to examine’
Press freedom, with inexorable logic, is the right to publish stories I disapprove of just as much as stories I…
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Mick Hume: Royal Charter press regulation plan is a right royal disgrace to democracy
The Tories’ draft proposals for what they call a ‘tough’ new press regulator to be underpinned by a Royal Charter…
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Labour seeks cross-party agreement on Leveson – and Harman tells Cameron to ‘man up’
Harriet Harman today signalled Labour's willingness to reach an all-party agreement over Lord Justice Leveson's proposals on press regulation, but…
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Lord Puttnam’s bid to attach a Leveson law to the Defamation Bill will go down in history as an act…
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Plans to punish newspapers with exemplary damages are unlawful, say top QCs
Plans to impose exemplary libel and privacy damages against newspapers that refused to sign up to the new press regulator…
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Lib Dem peer Lord Lester QC has warned that "party political gamesmanship" could lead to the long-awaited Defamation Bill being…
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Royal Charter press regulation plan: Backing from Times, Mail and Independent – but Guardian and FT are more critical
All the national newspapers which commented on the Royal Charter press regulation plans today signalled at least qualified support, with…
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