The Royal Charter vs Leveson’s Self-Regulation Recommendations

12/02/2013

In a speech on Monday, Dr Gerry McCann again reiterated the victims of press abuses' view that full implementation of Leveson was the “minimum acceptable compromise.”Hacked Off has considered the extent to which the Royal Charter gives effect to Leveson’s recommendations about the self-regulatory body.We have found that, of the 30 recommendations laying down what a self-regulator must do or must meet, only 5 are adequately represented in David Cameron's Royal Charter, with 23 breached or caveated and 2 unclear.Click here to see the full comparison between Leveson's recommendations on a self-regulator and the proposals in the Royal Charter.Click here to read the top 5 reasons that the Royal Charter falls way short of Leveson's recommendations.Click here to see the Royal Charter in full.

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