‘The High Court has rejected NMA’s claim for judicial review of the PRP’s decision to recognise IMPRESS as an independent, charter-compliant press regulator.’
Transparency Project, 13th October 2017
Source: www.transparencyproject.org.uk
‘A Government report on the future of the BBC is set to recommend that the BBC Trust be abolished and its powers handed to Ofcom, it has been reported.’
The Independent, 26th June 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Kairos Shipping Ltd and another v Enka & Co LLC and others: [2014] EWCA Civ 217; [2014] WLR (D) 113
‘It is in principle possible to constitute a limitation fund under the International Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976, scheduled to the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, by means of a guarantee in the form of a letter of undertaking provided by a protection and indemnity club.’
WLR Daily, 6th March 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘This week, Chris Grayling and the Court of Justice go head to head over the domestic status of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, while the ghost of Winston Churchill comes back to haunt the “United States of Europe” debate. Meanwhile, Theresa May’s plans to deprive terrorist suspects of their British citizenship are under fire, while calls for press accountability are repeated.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 20th November 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Confusion abounds about the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights following Mr Justice Mostyn’s recent judgment in R (AB) v Home Secretary (in which he appeared to say the Charter puts into UK law all sorts of new rights British governments had wanted to exclude) and Tuesday’s reaction by the Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling (who, it’s reported, is urgently trying to clarify whether the Charter ”applies in the UK”).’
Head of Legal, 21st November 2013
Source: www.headoflegal.com
“Industry takes case to court of appeal after high court rejected its application for an emergency injunction over new press regulator.”
The Guardian, 6th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A landmark reform of press regulation, enshrined in a royal charter, was finally sealed by the privy council on Wednesday [30th October] in a brief private ceremony, hours after the high court had quickly dismissed a last-minute legal attempt to block it by most
newspaper groups.”
The Guardian, 30th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Royal Charter on press regulation is expected to be approved later. What are the major questions that have defined the debate?”
BBC News, 30th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Newspaper and magazine publishers are seeking an injunction to prevent the government’s plan for a new press regulation regime getting the royal seal of approval this week.”
The Guardian, 28th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A group of national newspaper publishers have launched a legal challenge to the government’s plans for press regulation, claiming that ‘irrational’ ministers have failed to apply ‘rigorous standards of consultation’ over plans for a new watchdog.”
The Guardian, 24th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Politicians’ ‘repressive’ plans to regulate the press will undermine the country’s international standing and the reputation of the Queen, free speech groups have warned.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd October 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The editor of the Times yesterday gave the clearest indication yet that a group of the country’s bestselling titles will press ahead and set up their own regulator without seeking government approval, after ministers formally rejected a Fleet Street proposal for a new system of oversight.”
The Guardian, 9th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Plans on how to regulate the press industry have been delayed until later this month after a difficult meeting of the key players rejected the regulatory plans proposed by the industry but also could not agree whether to back the royal charter passed by parliament.”
The Guardian, 7th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government’s plan for a new press regulator has been officially put back to the autumn after a privy council meeting on Wednesday referred the matter to a new committee.”
The Guardian, 12th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A royal charter to regulate the press will not be introduced until the autumn at the earliest, the BBC has learnt.”
BBC News, 3rd July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The courts may be privatised in a justice shake-up that could save the Ministry of Justice £1 billion a year.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th May 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Some of the most prominent victims of phone-hacking have written to the culture secretary, Maria Miller, urging her to reject the royal charter proposed by the press industry, saying that it is unacceptable for ‘those responsible for the damage to our lives and the lives of others [to] seek to shrug off responsibility and once again write their own rulebook.’ ”
The Guardian, 24th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A key adviser to the Leveson report, the civil rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti, has hit out against politicians and newspaper barons, accusing them of letting down the public over promises to set up a new press watchdog.”
The Guardian, 21st May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The newspaper industry has rejected a plan for press regulation agreed by the
three main political parties in the wake of the Leveson Inquiry.”
BBC News, 25th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Privy Council, which will now be responsible for issuing a royal charter setting up a panel to vet the independence of a new press regulator, started licensing books in 1538. In 1557 a royal charter gave the members of the Stationers’ Company a monopoly of printing. In 1588 the anti-episcopal Marprelate Tracts (one of whose authors, John Penry, was executed for publishing them) provoked a system of press licensing which survived in one form or another, though with diminishing effect, until the last decade of the 17th century.”
London Review of Books, 11th April 2013
Source: www.lrb.co.uk
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