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Leveson inquiry and phone hacking scandal

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  • Friday, 4 October, 2019
    Prince Harry
    Prince Harry sues tabloid owners over alleged phone hacking

    Move suggests the courts have extended statute of limitations on breaches of privacy

    Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, is pictured during one of his activities joining a Botswana Defence Force anti-poaching patrol on the Chobe River in Kasane, Botswana, September 26, 2019. Dominic Lipinski/Pool via REUTERS
  • Saturday, 13 July, 2019
    Kim Darroch
    Met says public interest is no defence for publishing leaks 

    Assistant commissioner says police support press freedom after Darroch investigation criticised

  • Monday, 8 July, 2019
    Phone hacking
    Heather Mills wins ‘substantial’ settlement over phone hacking

    Murdoch-owned News Group gives ex-wife of pop star Paul McCartney ‘unmitigated apology’

    Heather Mills speaks outside the Rolls Building in London after receiving a public apology at the High Court after bringing a phone-hacking claim action against News Group Newspapers. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday July 8, 2019. See PA story COURTS Hacking. Photo credit should read: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2019
    Michael Skapinker
    Should politicians get lying privileges?

    Corporate leaders, newspapers and others face sanctions when they are untruthful

    Conservative MP Boris Johnson leaves a house in London on May 30, 2019. - Boris Johnson, considered the frontrunner to become Britain's next prime minister, must appear in court over allegations that he knowingly lied during the Brexit referendum campaign, a judge ruled Wednesday. Johnson, the former foreign secretary, will be summoned to appear over allegations of misconduct in public office, judge Margot Coleman said in a written decision, without specifying the date. (Photo by Tolga AKMEN / AFP)TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images
  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2019
    Media
    UK culture secretary shrugs off online regulation fears

    Critics say new measures could be used as a weapon to silence some debates

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  • Tuesday, 15 May, 2018
    MPs reject new Leveson press inquiry
  • Monday, 14 May, 2018
    Newspaper industry
    Lords vote for new Leveson press inquiry

    Upper house risks newspaper fury by breathing fresh life into second hearing

    Undated file photo of a collection of British newspapers. Senior journalists are to face a grilling from MPs on the treatment of people from ethnic minorities by the press. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday April 24, 2018. Representatives of some of Britain's national newspaper groups, along with trade body the Society of Editors, will give evidence on Tuesday to the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee inquiry into hate crime and its violent consequences. See PA story MEDIA Hearing. Photo credit should read: Peter Byrne/PA Wire
  • Wednesday, 9 May, 2018
    UK newspapers claim MPs vote is victory for press freedom

    Commons narrowly rejects case for a new inquiry into media behaviour

    9/5/18  A selection of newspapers in a WHSmiths in London Bridge station.
  • Wednesday, 9 May, 2018
    Q&ANewspaper industry
    Why the UK’s media fears MPs will impose fresh regulation

    Opposition parties believe amending the Data Protection Bill will restore public trust

    Undated file photo of a collection of British newspapers. Senior journalists are to face a grilling from MPs on the treatment of people from ethnic minorities by the press. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday April 24, 2018. Representatives of some of Britain's national newspaper groups, along with trade body the Society of Editors, will give evidence on Tuesday to the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee inquiry into hate crime and its violent consequences. See PA story MEDIA Hearing. Photo credit should read: Peter Byrne/PA Wire
  • Tuesday, 8 May, 2018
    Newspaper industry
    Theresa May pressed to revive inquiry into newspaper malpractice

    Publishers fear for free speech as Miliband and Clarke seek data bill amendment

    epa05727523 Newspapers on sale with front pages dominated by news of British Prime Minister Theresa May's signature 'Brexit' speech in central London, Britain, 18 January 2017. May was quoted as saying that staying in the single market would keep the UK under the influence of EU law, a move that would be contrary to the result of the 23 June 2016 referendum. EPA/HAYOUNG JEON
  • Tuesday, 8 May, 2018
    The FT ViewNewspaper industry
    Britain’s press singled out for further punishment

    New legislation risks curtailing journalists’ ability to do their jobs

    epa06019062 British General election headlines and placards of British newspapers on the news stand at Victoria Station in London, Britain, 09 June 2017. British Prime Minister Theresa May met the Queen in Buckingham Palace after the 08 June general election ended in a hung parliament with the Conservative Party unable to gain a majority. EPA/GERRY PENNY
  • Thursday, 22 March, 2018
    Newspaper industry
    Gordon Brown calls for police probe into Sunday Times

    Ex-PM accuses paper of unlawfully accessing his financial details

    Former Prime Minster Gordon Brown making a speech at Coventry University on business and the automotive industry.
  • Thursday, 1 March, 2018
    Newspaper industry
    UK government rejects second inquiry into press wrongdoing

    Victory for newspapers that have lobbied against a second examination

    Matt Hancock said the government would shift its attention to regulating the internet
  • Monday, 5 February, 2018
    Newspaper industry
    Hugh Grant attacks Mirror Group over decade of ‘criminality’

    Actor donates payout for ‘industrial scale’ phone hacking to press campaign group

    Actor Hugh Grant and Crimewatch presenter Jacqui Hames leave the Rolls Building in London after they settled their phone hacking claims against Mirror Group Newspapers and News Group Newspapers, publishers of the News of the World. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday February 5, 2018. See PA story COURTS Hacking. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
  • Wednesday, 10 January, 2018
    Lords vote renews pressure for fresh UK phone-hacking probe

    May government plans Commons challenge to amendment calling for second Leveson inquiry

    Lord Leveson with his final report from his inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press at the QE2 Conference centre, London. Credit: David Parry/ FT
  • Thursday, 14 December, 2017
    Law
    Peer backs down on changes to data protection laws

    Media welcomes move that would have restricted investigative journalism

    Baroness Sheila Hollins speaks at a Hacked Off press conference in London, on March 18, 2013, following the cross-party agreement on a new system of newspaper self-regulation that resulted from negotiations sparked by the Leveson Inquiry's review of press standards. Hacked Off, a campaign group that advocates for victims of press abuse, welcomed the cross-party agreement on implementing the Leveson recommendations on press self-regulation. AFP PHOTO / ANDREW COWIE (Photo credit should read ANDREW COWIE/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Thursday, 18 May, 2017
    UK general election
    British newspapers to escape second Leveson inquiry

    Conservatives also pledge to drop court costs penalty if they win election

    epa05721840 A copy of the Times newspaper with their interview with US President-elect Donald J. Trump is seen in a news stand in central London, Britain 16 January 2017. In a rare move, Trump has given two European newspapers an interview on 13 January 2017. Speaking to the British 'Times' and German tabloid 'BILD' at the Trump Tower in New York, he stressed that NATO had problems. 'It's obsolete', Trump said. EPA/FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA
  • Thursday, 18 May, 2017
    Conservatives to abandon ‘Leveson 2′ press enquiry – manifesto
  • Thursday, 12 January, 2017
    Scotland attacks new UK media law

    SNP changes stance and labels Section 40 a threat to press freedom

    A man takes a copy of the Daily Record newspaper reporting on the pro-Brexit result of the UK's EU referendum vote and with an image of Scotland's First Minister and Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Nicola Sturgeon, in a store in Edinburgh, Scotland on June 25, 2016. The result of Britain's June 23 referendum vote to leave the European Union (EU) has pitted parents against children, cities against rural areas, north against south and university graduates against those with fewer qualifications. London, Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU but Wales and large swathes of England, particularly former industrial hubs in the north with many disaffected workers, backed a Brexit. / AFP / OLI SCARFF (Photo credit should read OLI SCARFF/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Tuesday, 10 January, 2017
    Newspaper industry
    Financial Times opposes new UK press law

    Section 40 carries threat of full liability for legal costs

    Embargoed to 0001 Wednesday December 14 File photo dated 21/7/2015 of newspapers on sale at a newsagents in central London. Britain's news industry pumped £5.3 billion into the UK economy last year, supporting thousands of jobs and businesses across the country, research shows. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday December 14, 2016. While revenues have nearly halved since 2003 amid a slowdown in print circulation and the transition to digital news, sector expenditure supported around 87,500 UK jobs in 2015, according to a report commissioned by the News Media Association and carried out by Deloitte. See PA story CITY NewsIndustry. Photo credit should read: John Stillwell/PA Wire
  • Monday, 9 January, 2017
    UK economy
    Theresa May warned of ‘trench warfare’ over press regulation

    Newspapers pile pressure on ministers ahead of Leveson 2 deadline

    The Investigation Into The News Of The World Phone Hacking Allegations Continues...LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 08:  In this photo illustration, various front pages of London newspapers report on the closing of the national tabloid newspaper 'News of The World' on July 8, 2011 in London, England. Following further serious allegations that phone hacking was widespread at the 'News of the World' newspaper during the editorship of Rebekah Brooks (nee Wade), Chief Executive James Murdoch has announced the newspaper will close on July 10.  (Photo Illustration by Stewart Stanley/Getty Images)
  • Wednesday, 2 November, 2016
    The FT ViewFund management
    UK press will gain little from Leveson part two

    Investigations into past behaviour ignores the industry’s trials today

    LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 18:  British newspaper are displayed for sale on the day that the Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems agree a deal on press reform on March 18, 2013 in London, England. A Press regulation deal has been agreed today by Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems following a call for reform in the wake of Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry into press ethics and phone hacking. (Photo by Rosie Hallam/Getty Images)
  • Tuesday, 1 November, 2016
    UK companies
    Government delays decision on Leveson 2 press inquiry

    Labour MPs and campaigners claim betrayal of hacking victims

    News of the World Publishes Final Issue...Unsold copies of the last issue of the News of the World, published by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., sit on the floor at a supermarket in Slough, U.K., on Sunday, July 10, 2011. The U.K. tabloid newspaper that has run stories about celebrities, sex scandals and murders since the Victorian era, published its final edition after News Corp. decided to shut it amid phone-hacking claims. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
  • Friday, 29 April, 2016
    David Allen Green
    Press regulation: why ‘section 40′ on litigation costs should not be implemented
  • Monday, 18 April, 2016
    David Allen Green
    The Privacy Dances
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