Commenting on the collapse of the Tulisa Contostavlos’s trial, Joan Smith, Executive Director of Hacked Off, said;"What has happened in this case explodes the self-serving myth propagated by some in the press industry that, when the News of the World closed, newspaper malpractice was ended.""The suggestion that the worst elements of the press cleaned up their act during or after the Leveson Inquiry has now been shown repeatedly to be unsustainable.”"There is great investigative journalism in the UK press, but propaganda claims by those opposing independent press regulation that it was found in the News of the World or the Sun on Sunday, and was threatened by Leveson's recommendations, have been shown to be as fake as the Sheikh.”"Tulisa Contostavlos is a well-known celebrity with access to good lawyers and the guts to stand up to intrusion and entrapment, but without the Royal Charter what hope is there for ordinary victims of the worst elements of the press.”

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