Leveson highlights aims of new press body
Lord Justice Leveson said a new independent regulatory system underpinned by legislation would:
- Enshrine, for the first time, a legal duty on Government to protect freedom of the press.
- Provide an independent process to recognise the new self-regulatory body and reassure the public that the basic requirement of independence and effectiveness were met...in the report I recommend this is done by Ofcom.
- By recognising the new body, it would validate its standards code.
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