10 July 2012:
Submissions:
Media Standards Trust | Professor Chris Frost on behalf of the National Union of Journalists | Jim Boumelha on behalf of the National Union of Journalists | Seamus Dooley on behalf of the National Union of Journalists | National Union of Journalists |
Witness Statements and Hearing Transcripts:
Transcripts: Morning Hearing 10 July 2012 (Lord Hunt: page 1; Michelle Stanistreet: page 48; Professor Chris Frost; Page 48) | Afternoon Hearing 10 July 2012 (Martin Moore: Page 17) |
submissions, witness statements and hearing transcripts: module 4 | module 3 | module 2 | module 1 |
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• Lord Hunt, the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) chairman, maintained that any statutory regulation would be “adversarial”.
• Richard Desmond’s Northern & Shell, the publisher of the Daily Star and Daily Express, has warned against idea of withholding press cards from non-members of new PCC.
• Robert Jay QC, lead counsel to the inquiry, said he had “no grasp” of Hunt’s fears over statutory underpinning of new press regulator.
