Sentence examples for a statutory press from inspiring English sources
His 1993 Review of Press Self Regulation reiterated the potential need for a statutory press tribunal, as well as sterner laws to protect privacy.
He also suggested a statutory press regulator with greater powers than the current Press Complaints Commission.
Mr Lebedev said he would not have a problem with a statutory press regulatory body, adding: "I do not see any problem with any statutory underpinning".
Baroness Buscombe said a free press is a central component of a healthy democracy and "the undesirability of a statutory press regulator is very clear".
William Hague, the foreign secretary, says Britain would not be able to lecture other countries on press freedom if Britain had a statutory press law.
In 2002 we commissioned work on a statutory press complaints commission, a royal commission on limits to press ownership and a privacy law.
Instead, when, Carine Patry Hoskins, one of the three counsel to the Leveson inquiry who shared over £1.5m in fees for their work, is revealed to have had an affair with a barrister representing a staunch advocate of statutory press regulation and other interested parties, Leveson has effectively chosen to turn a blind eye and dismiss any concerns out of hand.
Her intervention in the debate comes a week after a similar attack on statutory press controls by the NS director David Newell.
An influential group of mainstream Tories, including four former cabinet ministers, have opened the door to a limited form of statutory press regulation, warning that proposals being put forward by the newspaper industry "risk being an unstable model destined to fail".
Any form of statutory press control in a free society is fraught with danger, totally impractical and would take far too long to implement".
"Any form of statutory press control in a free society is fraught with danger, totally impractical and would take far too long to implement," he said.
