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Hacked Off publish DCMS bill to enact Leveson, opening consultation on press reform
Hacked Off opens a consultation on four draft bills implementing the Leveson recommendations, including a working draft by DCMS officials.
16/1/13
Campaigns
Leveson: six weeks on, what is happening?
Brian Cathcart reviews what has happened on several fronts in the six weeks since the Leveson report was published.
14/1/13
News
The Leveson Report and Exemplary Damages: no “violation of free speech”
Hugh Tomlinson QC argues that the Leveson Report's exemplary damages proposal is a careful compromise that does not violate free speech.
13/1/13
News
Hacked Off publishes the Leveson Bill
Hacked Off publishes the Leveson Bill, a short parliamentary bill to put Lord Justice Leveson's press regulation recommendations into law.
6/1/13
News
Royal Charter proposals are overcomplicated and undemocratic
Hacked Off representatives met Maria Miller and Oliver Letwin to hear the Government's Royal Charter proposals, which Hacked Off calls overcomplicated and undemocratic.
20/12/12
News
Hacked Off and a Royal Charter
Hacked Off sets out three principled objections to using a Royal Charter rather than legislation to underpin a press regulation recognition body.
18/12/12
News
Hacked Off Press Conference: Statements by Jacqui Hames and Anne Diamond
Transcripts of statements by Jacqui Hames and Anne Diamond at a Hacked Off press conference on the implementation of Leveson's proposals.
17/12/12
News
Nobody will trust another newspaper industry poodle
Brian Cathcart responds to a letter from UK press bodies to Culture Secretary Maria Miller claiming progress towards industry-wide agreement on press regulation.
14/12/12
Press Release
It must be the pantomime season
Brian Cathcart argues that the Royal Charter idea floated by the Prime Minister is a way of avoiding genuine accountability for editors and proprietors.
14/12/12
News
Third Party Complaints and Leveson
Hacked Off examines newspaper objections to Leveson's recommendations on third-party complaints, arguing editors place their interests before the public interest.
13/12/12
Briefings

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