I recently launched a Judicial Review of the press regulator IPSO (Independent Press Standards Organisation) for failing to heed a group complaint about two Murdoch newspapers which had grossly misreported a House of Lords meeting to launch the campaign for Britain to apologise for the impact on the native Palestinian people of the Balfour Declaration of 1917. Between them, the newspapers had smeared a whole meeting of Palestine sympathisers as ‘antisemitic’ and, by implication anybody who spoke at or attended similar meetings.
IPSO'S Latest season of calamities →
Author: Brian Cathcart
IPSO, the sham regulator operated by the big newspaper corporations since 2014, has never enjoyed much credibility. After all, it was set up in defiance of the reforming recommendations of the Leveson Report by press bosses openly determined to keep their freedom to lie and bully, and ever since then their papers have been breaching its code of practice with impunity almost every day.
Letter to supporters
I am sorry to tell you that the Judge has rejected my case against IPSO; you can see his judgement on https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/coulter-v-ipso-2018-ewch-919-qb.pdf.
This is a severe disappointment to my legal team and me, and to the Hacked Off Campaign which has assisted me over the last year. Significantly, my legal team had assessed that I had good prospects for success and was an ideal test case; I would not have proceeded otherwise.
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Author: Brian Cathcart
If you are a regulator sworn to uphold standards in a given industry, it's vital that you know about any possible breaches of those standards, right? In other words, you should be grateful to anyone who tells you about such breaches, whoever they are.