Publishers launch High Court bid to injunct the Government and stop press regulation Royal Charter
Publishers' body PressBof is seeking an injunction to stop the Government from going to the Privy Council to seek the…
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Newspaper industry launches judicial review to derail Government Royal Charter plan
The newspaper industry today filed papers in the High Court seeking a judicial review of the Privy Council’s decision to…
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Alexander: No further compromise, Royal Charter will go to Privy Council this week
A senior Government minister has warned the press that no further compromise is possible on its planned Royal Charter. Chief…
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Government seeks eleventh-hour compromise over Royal Charter
Culture secretary Maria Miller has written to her Labour and Liberal Democrat counterparts on press regulation urging further concessions to…
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Government says publishers’ Royal Charter would be more open to political interference
The Government has said that the system of press regulation proposed by publishers would be more open to political interference…
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Publishers say Royal Charter does not have Parliament’s backing and say exemplary damages threat is ‘illegal’
Regional press trade body the Newspaper Society has accused some politicians of attempting to “re-invent history” by saying that the…
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World press groups urge Queen not to sign ‘toxic’ and ‘repressive’ press regulation Royal Charter
A group of international press and media organisations has written directly to the Queen urging her not to approve the…
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Rusbridger: Royal Charters a ‘medieval piece of nonsense’ which have ‘hideously complicated things’
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has condemned the idea of Royal Charters regulating the press as a "medieval piece of nonsense".…
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