{"id":100940,"date":"2023-11-16T01:01:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T01:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/?p=100940"},"modified":"2023-11-16T01:01:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T01:01:24","slug":"gov-finally-legislates-to-tear-up-hated-rules-that-would-be-the-death-knell-of-britains-free-press-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/world-news\/gov-finally-legislates-to-tear-up-hated-rules-that-would-be-the-death-knell-of-britains-free-press-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov finally legislates to tear up hated rules that would be the death knell of Britain\u2019s free press | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
THE threat hanging over publishers to pay all legal costs if they win or lose a court case will be removed, it was announced in the King's Speech.<\/p>\n
Ministers have made a commitment to repeal the controversial Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 which has yet to be enacted.<\/p>\n
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King Charles said that the government will bring forward legislation to \u201cprotect public interest journalism\u201d.<\/p>\n
The publishers would have to pay expensive legal costs in both defamation and privacy cases for both sides if they don\u2019t sign up to an approved regulator.<\/p>\n
The Impress media body – set up by the Press Recognition Panel – oversees 125 publishers and is the only approved regulator set up in the wake of the Leveson Inquiry.<\/p>\n
But big publishing names such as News UK which owns The Sun, Daily Mail and General Trust and Telegraph Media Group joined the voluntary funded Independent Press Standards Organisation, set up in 2014.<\/p>\n