“The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has begun an investigation into whether newspaper photographs showing Vicky Pryce serving her prison sentence might have breached its code of conduct.”
The Guardian, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Guardian analyses the controversial clauses that have sparked a heated debate over the cross-party plan for a new press regulation regime.”
The Guardian, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The courts are ‘very aware’ of the dangers of feeding media perceptions of a compensation culture, the Master of the Rolls has said.”
Litigation Futures, 25th March 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
“Fears that bloggers and small-scale news websites will be dragged into the new proposed system of press regulation, so facing crippling costs, appeared to be lifting on Friday when Labour and the Liberal Democrats agreed to table last-minute amendments in the Lords to make it clear they will be excluded.”
The Guardian, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Croatian actor has accepted substantial undisclosed libel damages over an article in the Independent which wrongly identified him as a Nazi war criminal.”
The Guardian, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Newspapers likely to take action over regulations that will require huge payouts when stories are wrong.”
The Guardian, 19th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Hundreds of police files on celebrities and politicians accused of sex assault
were so heavily protected that even officers investigating claims could not
access them.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th March 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Sky News correspondent Gerard Tubb will not face prosecution for hacking the email account of ‘canoe man’ John Darwin, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has announced.”
The Guardian, 18th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Britain’s largest newspaper groups are on a collision course with the Government over press regulation, after last night signalling their anger at the imposition of ‘several deeply contentious’ issues in a Royal Charter announced in Parliament by the Prime Minister.”
The Independent, 19th March 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh has accepted ‘very substantial damages’ from News International, with the Sun admitting that it accessed text messages from her mobile phone after it was stolen, the high court has heard.”
The Guardian, 18th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“After much political manoeuvring over the weekend, a deal has been struck on the Royal Charter to implement Leveson. A key point is that it will prevent the Charter being unilaterally changed by future governments.”
UK Constitutional Law Group, 18th March 2013
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
“PM’s ejector-seat diplomacy over Leveson leaves him facing a complex parliamentary battle.”
The Guardian, 14th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The three leading political parties were last night close to signing up to a historic Royal Charter to implement the recommendations of Lord Justice Leveson on reforming regulation of the press.”
The Independent, 12th March 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A former police officer and ex-prison officer have admitted selling information to the Sun about high-profile individuals – the first people to plead guilty in relation to the investigation into alleged illegal payments by journalists to public officials.”
The Guardian, 8th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The former supreme court judge, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, has established a six-strong ‘foundation group’ to kick start the establishment of a new press regulator, the chairman of the Press Complaints Commission has announced. Lord Hunt, who was tasked with transitioning the PCC into the new regulator, said on Thursday that he is hoping the move will help extricate the process of setting up a new watchdog out of the ‘quagmire’ it has been stuck in since the Leveson report was published in November.”
The Guardian, 7th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Gordon Brown’s complaint to the Press Complaints Commission over a Sunday Times story about the more than £2m in fees and expenses received since he stepped down as prime minister has been rejected.”
The Guardian, 4th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A senior judge has made an important ruling in favour of transparency in the family courts.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd March 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Independent did not inaccurately report the end of a long-running libel battle with Lord Ashcroft, the Press Complaints Commission has ruled.”
The Guardian, 28th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Sun did not breach rules on subterfuge when it obtained details of a police evidence list at the scene of the Norfolk Broads deaths, the press watchdog has ruled.”
The Guardian, 27th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The police watchdog has written to a chief constable expressing concern over comments in an email about the Hillsborough disaster that were ‘at best ill-judged and at worst offensive and upsetting’.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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