The course will explore the fast-changing landscape in UK press regulation and demonstrate how a knowledge and understanding of the newly established institutions and procedures can benefit you and your organisation.
The course will look at the new options for redress available to those who find they wish to complain about the conduct and actions of a newspaper or magazine following publication of material they consider inaccurate or damaging.
Until now there have been few effective remedies short of entering immediately on a full action for Defamation with all of the implications for costs and expenditure of corporate time that an action in the High Court inevitably involves. But things might be changing. The structure, proposed remedies, background and likely performance of the new Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) will be examined and it will be compared and contrasted with the Press Complaints Commission, which it replaced in May 2014. The rival IMPRESS Project claims to offer independent press regulation “with teeth.”It says it believes in the freedom of the press to tell us what’s really going on in our society, “But we don’t believe in journalism which ruins people’s lives just to sell newspapers. That’s not press freedom. It’s bullying.”
The course will look at the likely impact the rival organisation will have and the cost implications for all those considering starting a legal action of the emergence of regulator that is compliant with the recommendations of the Leveson Report.
This one day course is aimed at those who wish to become more familiar with the avenues for redress and options available when the Press gets it wrong. It is aimed for mid-level and senior practitioners in both public and private sectors.
Speaker:
Tom Rowland - Writer, Journalist, and Broadcaster
Tom Rowland is a writer, journalist and broadcaster. He was on the staff of The Daily Telegraph for 10 years and has written extensively for The Times and The Guardian.
In 2011, he won substantial damages from News International for hacking his phone and was a core participant in the Leveson Inquiry into the Culture, Practice and Ethics of the Press. He runs the oversight team that writes and edits the regular reports published by the campaigning pressure group Hacked Off monitoring the activities and performance of the Press Complaints Commission and its successor the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) scheduled to launch on 1 May 2014.