Aftermath of the Leveson Inquiry

[John]

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Dear Friends,
 
Your MP is being lobbied by newspaper editors who are being encouraged by the big newspaper corporations to try to block the Leveson process.
 
Editors are asking MPs to oppose the initiation of the access to justice measure - which also importantly acts as an incentive for them to join the Leveson system - which all parties promised to deliver and which Parliament passed into law in 2013.
 
So we need your help - today.
 
The big news corporations are panicking. They know that if the new Leveson-complaint regulator IMPRESS is 'recognised' later this month, then the Government will be put under huge pressure - by victims of press abuse, by the ethical majority of the industry and by you  the public - to trigger the incentives that will encourage newspapers to join this new recognised regulator, or to overhaul IPSO so it meets the same high standards, and deliver access to justice for victims of press abuse.
 
Just this week, the Government suffered a large defeat in a vote on the “Snoopers’ Charter” (Investigatory Powers Bill) as the House of Lords voted overwhelmingly to introduce the measure for phone hacking victims. We want this measure to be extended to victims of libel and intrusion too, as was originally agreed by Parliament in 2013, but the government – after holding secret meetings with editors and owners  - is backtracking.
 
With the House of Lords prepared to act to ensure Leveson implementation and the prospect of a recognised regulator in sight, the newspaper editors are desperately attempting to mislead MPs. In letters that we've seen, they are claiming that the new guaranteed access to justice measure will put local newspaper publishers "at risk of crippling legal costs". Friends, this is NOT TRUE.
 
The measure ensures access to justice for the public when newspapers refuse to offer guaranteed cheap arbitration, while providing court costs protection to newspapers who sign up to the Leveson system.
 
Will you please write to your MP urgently today, to explain to them what the new system looks like and how much public support it has?
 
Last time we asked you to write to your MPs, nearly 7,000 of you did. Please help us do this again.
 
Please follow this link to email your MP today.
 
Best wishes
Daisy and Evan
Joint Executive Directors, Hacked Off

[Alice Purjorick]

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Dear Friends,
 
Your MP is being lobbied by newspaper editors who are being encouraged by the big newspaper corporations to try to block the Leveson process.
 
Editors are asking MPs to oppose the initiation of the access to justice measure - which also importantly acts as an incentive for them to join the Leveson system - which all parties promised to deliver and which Parliament passed into law in 2013.
 
So we need your help - today.
 
The big news corporations are panicking. They know that if the new Leveson-complaint regulator IMPRESS is 'recognised' later this month, then the Government will be put under huge pressure - by victims of press abuse, by the ethical majority of the industry and by you the public - to trigger the incentives that will encourage newspapers to join this new recognised regulator, or to overhaul IPSO so it meets the same high standards, and deliver access to justice for victims of press abuse.
 
Just this week, the Government suffered a large defeat in a vote on the “Snoopers’ Charter” (Investigatory Powers Bill) as the House of Lords voted overwhelmingly to introduce the measure for phone hacking victims. We want this measure to be extended to victims of libel and intrusion too, as was originally agreed by Parliament in 2013, but the government – after holding secret meetings with editors and owners  - is backtracking.
 
With the House of Lords prepared to act to ensure Leveson implementation and the prospect of a recognised regulator in sight, the newspaper editors are desperately attempting to mislead MPs. In letters that we've seen, they are claiming that the new guaranteed access to justice measure will put local newspaper publishers "at risk of crippling legal costs". Friends, this is NOT TRUE.
 
The measure ensures access to justice for the public when newspapers refuse to offer guaranteed cheap arbitration, while providing court costs protection to newspapers who sign up to the Leveson system.
 
Will you please write to your MP urgently today, to explain to them what the new system looks like and how much public support it has?
 
Last time we asked you to write to your MPs, nearly 7,000 of you did. Please help us do this again.
 
Please follow this link to email your MP today.
 
Best wishes
Daisy and Evan
Joint Executive Directors, Hacked Off

See the emboldened bit.
That gets far enough up my nose, with crampons, to say upstick to Hacked Off.
The implication that somehow they are of a rank above the public......................?

[G-Unit]

See the emboldened bit.
That gets far enough up my nose, with crampons, to say upstick to Hacked Off.
The implication that somehow they are of a rank above the public......................?

Shades of the Brexit In and Out campaigners, the Labour MP's who know better than the members.....touch your forelock and listen to those who know best!

Who are the ethical majority in the media then?

[mercury]

Shades of the Brexit In and Out campaigners, the Labour MP's who know better than the members.....touch your forelock and listen to those who know best!

Who are the ethical majority in the media then?

Those that dont hack mobile phones....because that is the only crime the media could ever commit

[John]

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Dear Friends,
 
Yesterday, we shared a film in which victims of press abuse told their stories: it included Jacqui Hames, a police officer whose family was placed under surveillance by the News of the World, during a murder investigation.
 
However, within minutes of sending you the link, the video was temporarily suspended by YouTube with only a glib explanation being given. It’s not yet clear whether this was due to a technical reason or because some viewers reported it,  but we’ve uploaded it onto a different platform and you can now watch it here.
 
We asked you yesterday to watch the video and email the Prime Minister and almost 2,000 of you have done so already – thank you.
 
Please will you watch this (re-posted) video and if you haven’t already, please email the Prime Minister now?
 
http://hackinginquiry.org/latest-news/theresa-may-guarantee-press-victims-access-to-justice/
 
The measure that victims are calling for – Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act – is a ‘win win win’.
It delivers guaranteed access to justice to those victims who don't have the money to take a big newspaper corporation to court
It acts as a 'cost shifting incentive', so that newspaper corporations are encouraged to join a recognised regulator (because if they refuse to offer complainants access to quick cheap arbitration through a Leveson-style regulator, they have to pay a claimant's costs, win or lose), and It gives journalists stronger free speech protections so that they can expose wrong-doing free from the threat of chilling from litigious offenders like Robert Maxwell and Jimmy Savile.


We know that the Prime Minister has already met secretly with Rupert Murdoch once.  And it is unlikely to have been her only contact with a press owner over this matter. They will do everything they can to retain their power without accountability.
 
Please watch this video and email the PM without delay.
 
Thank you,
 
Daisy and Evan
Joint Executive Directors, Hacked Off

http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=36889d82a90d38e0b25c84b47&id=d555874322&e=58fbdaece9

[mercury]

Leveson recommendations seem a dead duck now

Good
There should be no room for silencing the press j ust some valid mechanism to deal with abuses

[John]

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Dear Friend

We need your help to make sure that press abuse victims are not betrayed and that Leveson’s recommendations are not abandoned.

This week political parties published their manifestos for the General Election on 8th June and we learned that the Conservative party are proposing to abandon the Leveson reforms which they agreed on a cross-party basis in 2011, and to cancel Part 2 of the inquiry which would investigate police corruption and the cover-ups of criminality at newspapers. We will fight this disgraceful betrayal.

The Conservatives, however, have chosen to renege on the cross party agreement and to betray press abuse victims. Their manifesto pledges to repeal the “Section 40” low cost arbitration incentive and thereby deny ordinary people affected by illegal press abuse access to justice. They have also pledged to abandon the second stage of the Leveson Inquiry, allowing unaccountable press barons to continue to get away with corporate misconduct. This appalling reversal comes in spite of the support for Leveson from a number of rank-and-file Conservative members, MPs and Peers.

After all the unminuted meetings between press representatives and the office of Number 10 over the last year, we can only conclude that There has been collusion at the highest level between government and newspaper owners. It appears that the Prime Minister has stitched up a calculated deal to trade the interests of the public for favourable coverage in powerful newspapers.

Press victim, Christopher Jefferies said:
"If this pledge is carried through, there will be no effective, independent regulation of the press in this country and no access to affordable justice for victims of press abuse. I wish to make it clear that I and others who have suffered at the hands of powerful and unaccountable newspapers will not tolerate this betrayal.
 
"We will fight throughout the next Parliament to ensure that the voices of ordinary people are heard above the megaphones of self-interested newspaper editors and proprietors. We will fight to ensure that the careful regulatory framework proposed by Leveson and agreed by Parliament is not systematically dismantled by a government subservient to newspaper editors. And we will fight to ensure that any inconvenient truths about cover-ups and about collusion between police, press and politicians in the past are exposed to proper scrutiny."

We need to challenge the Conservative leadership on why they have gone back on their word, but we can’t do it without your help! We need you to make sure you hold your prospective MPs to account in the run-up to this General Election. We will send you more on this next week.

Thank you for your continued support,

The Hacked Off team.

Read the full Press Release here.

[Miss Taken Identity]

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Dear Friend

We need your help to make sure that press abuse victims are not betrayed and that Leveson’s recommendations are not abandoned.

This week political parties published their manifestos for the General Election on 8th June and we learned that the Conservative party are proposing to abandon the Leveson reforms which they agreed on a cross-party basis in 2011, and to cancel Part 2 of the inquiry which would investigate police corruption and the cover-ups of criminality at newspapers. We will fight this disgraceful betrayal.

The Conservatives, however, have chosen to renege on the cross party agreement and to betray press abuse victims. Their manifesto pledges to repeal the “Section 40” low cost arbitration incentive and thereby deny ordinary people affected by illegal press abuse access to justice. They have also pledged to abandon the second stage of the Leveson Inquiry, allowing unaccountable press barons to continue to get away with corporate misconduct. This appalling reversal comes in spite of the support for Leveson from a number of rank-and-file Conservative members, MPs and Peers.

After all the unminuted meetings between press representatives and the office of Number 10 over the last year, we can only conclude that There has been collusion at the highest level between government and newspaper owners. It appears that the Prime Minister has stitched up a calculated deal to trade the interests of the public for favourable coverage in powerful newspapers.

Press victim, Christopher Jefferies said:
"If this pledge is carried through, there will be no effective, independent regulation of the press in this country and no access to affordable justice for victims of press abuse. I wish to make it clear that I and others who have suffered at the hands of powerful and unaccountable newspapers will not tolerate this betrayal.
 
"We will fight throughout the next Parliament to ensure that the voices of ordinary people are heard above the megaphones of self-interested newspaper editors and proprietors. We will fight to ensure that the careful regulatory framework proposed by Leveson and agreed by Parliament is not systematically dismantled by a government subservient to newspaper editors. And we will fight to ensure that any inconvenient truths about cover-ups and about collusion between police, press and politicians in the past are exposed to proper scrutiny."

We need to challenge the Conservative leadership on why they have gone back on their word, but we can’t do it without your help! We need you to make sure you hold your prospective MPs to account in the run-up to this General Election. We will send you more on this next week.

Thank you for your continued support,

The Hacked Off team.

Read the full Press Release here.

Gerry being a member of this elite in society group.

"justice for victims of press abuse"    and this : "I and others who have suffered at the hands of powerful and unaccountable newspapers will not tolerate this betrayal".

What exactly did Kate n Gerry do with this mosterous press? they paid money to be kept in the headlines, they said nothing in defence of the police investigating their childs disappearance when they were called all sorts of names, instigated by them and their family, Hypocracy or what?

The 'press' are losing out to the internet. The place where us lower society group research ourselves and make our own descisions. 

Two important things to know about elections and 'parties'  they are self promoting closed shops, and are run and controlled by the Murdoch empire.

[stephen25000]

Gerry being a member of this elite in society group.

"justice for victims of press abuse"    and this : "I and others who have suffered at the hands of powerful and unaccountable newspapers will not tolerate this betrayal".

What exactly did Kate n Gerry do with this mosterous press? they paid money to be kept in the headlines, they said nothing in defence of the police investigating their childs disappearance when they were called all sorts of names, instigated by them and their family, Hypocracy or what?

The 'press' are losing out to the internet. The place where us lower society group research ourselves and make our own descisions. 

Two important things to know about elections and 'parties'  they are self promoting closed shops, and are run and controlled by the Murdoch empire.

Pertinent post.

The Mccanns failure to condemn criticism, IMHO, merely highlights their narcissism, and their attitude that it's all about them.

[Carana]

The condemnation of McCann has spread to other parts of the media.

Let's not forget the £500,000 given to a media baron Lord Bell, to keep the mccanns in the spotlight.

I haven't been able to find any independent corroboration of that.

What seems more likely to me is that his company did receive a large sum of money from Mark Warner for crisis management related to the case.

[Miss Taken Identity]

I haven't been able to find any independent corroboration of that.

What seems more likely to me is that his company did receive a large sum of money from Mark Warner for crisis management related to the case.

Nice to see you not being able to find independent corroboration for Stephens post - and then provide NONE for your  'opinion'.  Crisis management money was used to...?

[John]

The Judicial Review into the Government’s U-turn on finishing the Leveson Inquiry, which was made possible by you and other Hacked Off supporters, has today found in favour of the Government.
 
Whilst finding that the former Prime Minister David Cameron repeatedly set out his intention to complete the Inquiry, the High Court ruling published today found that the Government had met its narrow legal obligations in how it cancelled the Inquiry.
 
We are bitterly disappointed with this outcome. But through this legal challenge, made possible by the generous and unwavering support of Hacked Off supporters, the Government’s cowardly refusal to challenge powerful newspaper proprietors and editors for their illegal behaviour has been exposed.

Thank you for making this possible.
 
The Government cannot hide behind today’s judgement to justify its decision as reasonable, proportionate or in the public interest. It has completely discarded personal commitments by a Conservative Prime Minister to the victims to complete this Inquiry.

This is not the end for Leveson Part Two. It is needed more than ever, to uncover the scale of unlawful and unethical conduct in which senior newspaper executives were complicit. That is why it continues to be supported by working journalists, the general public, and Parliamentarians across the country.

One of the applicants and victim of intrusion Jacqui Hames said,
 
 “The Government’s capitulation once again to newspaper owners and executives, over the cancellation of the Inquiry before it had been allowed to finish its work, was an act of extraordinary cowardice.  Extensive criminal activity occurred at some of the country’s most powerful newspapers, yet not a single executive has been held accountable - and now the Government will not even allow the agreed and promised public inquiry to finish.

“I and other victims of press illegality will continue to campaign and pursue every avenue to obtain the justice we were promised, and to see the completion of the Leveson Inquiry.”
 
The judgment reported that Sir Brian Leveson himself “fundamentally disagreed” with the Government’s decision to cancel the second part of the Inquiry, and highlighted the seriousness and egregiousness of the press abuse suffered by the applicants.

The second part of the Inquiry would investigate the extent of the illegal activity which is known to have occurred at Trinity Mirror Group and News International (now News UK), and which is alleged to have occurred at other newspaper groups. It would also explore allegations of corrupt relationships between the police, politicians and the press, and the role of senior newspaper executives in authorising and condoning press abuse.
 
At Hacked Off our message remains clear: the corporate press may have the megaphone, the money and the might, but they do not have right on their side.

We are committed to stopping the Government reneging on its promises and we will continue our fight to ensure that powerful newspaper executives are held to account.

Thank you again for your outstanding generosity and support,
The Hacked Off Team

[Alice Purjorick]

The Judicial Review into the Government’s U-turn on finishing the Leveson Inquiry, which was made possible by you and other Hacked Off supporters, has today found in favour of the Government.
 
Whilst finding that the former Prime Minister David Cameron repeatedly set out his intention to complete the Inquiry, the High Court ruling published today found that the Government had met its narrow legal obligations in how it cancelled the Inquiry.
 
We are bitterly disappointed with this outcome. But through this legal challenge, made possible by the generous and unwavering support of Hacked Off supporters, the Government’s cowardly refusal to challenge powerful newspaper proprietors and editors for their illegal behaviour has been exposed.

Thank you for making this possible.
 
The Government cannot hide behind today’s judgement to justify its decision as reasonable, proportionate or in the public interest. It has completely discarded personal commitments by a Conservative Prime Minister to the victims to complete this Inquiry.

This is not the end for Leveson Part Two. It is needed more than ever, to uncover the scale of unlawful and unethical conduct in which senior newspaper executives were complicit. That is why it continues to be supported by working journalists, the general public, and Parliamentarians across the country.

One of the applicants and victim of intrusion Jacqui Hames said,
 
 “The Government’s capitulation once again to newspaper owners and executives, over the cancellation of the Inquiry before it had been allowed to finish its work, was an act of extraordinary cowardice.  Extensive criminal activity occurred at some of the country’s most powerful newspapers, yet not a single executive has been held accountable - and now the Government will not even allow the agreed and promised public inquiry to finish.

“I and other victims of press illegality will continue to campaign and pursue every avenue to obtain the justice we were promised, and to see the completion of the Leveson Inquiry.”
 
The judgment reported that Sir Brian Leveson himself “fundamentally disagreed” with the Government’s decision to cancel the second part of the Inquiry, and highlighted the seriousness and egregiousness of the press abuse suffered by the applicants.

The second part of the Inquiry would investigate the extent of the illegal activity which is known to have occurred at Trinity Mirror Group and News International (now News UK), and which is alleged to have occurred at other newspaper groups. It would also explore allegations of corrupt relationships between the police, politicians and the press, and the role of senior newspaper executives in authorising and condoning press abuse.
 
At Hacked Off our message remains clear: the corporate press may have the megaphone, the money and the might, but they do not have right on their side.

We are committed to stopping the Government reneging on its promises and we will continue our fight to ensure that powerful newspaper executives are held to account.

Thank you again for your outstanding generosity and support,
The Hacked Off Team

Hmmm.
It sounds like the equivalent of boxings "he got me with a lucky punch"

[Montclair]

I haven't been able to find any independent corroboration of that.

What seems more likely to me is that his company did receive a large sum of money from Mark Warner for crisis management related to the case.

Lord Bell said that the McCanns paid his PR company £500,000 to keep them on the front pages of the newspapers for a year in an interview with Owen Jones in the Guardian. Ican't find it on internet anymore but I remember Owen Jones showing his astonishment at this information from Tim Bell.

[Robittybob1]

Lord Bell said that the McCanns paid his PR company £500,000 to keep them on the front pages of the newspapers for a year in an interview with Owen Jones in the Guardian. Ican't find it on internet anymore but I remember Owen Jones showing his astonishment at this information from Tim Bell.

If someone paid this "£500,000" to Lord Bell, I have yet to see proof it came from the McCanns.