Leveson Inquiry: Hearings - Day 33

LEVESON INQUIRY:CULTURE, PRACTICE AND ETHICS OF THE PRESS

"I want this inquiry to mean something", not end up as "footnote in some professor of journalism's analysis of 21 century history." LJ Leveson in reply to A Rusbridger's submission to Inquiry.

Lord Justice Leveson

From Guardian:

Here's a quick reminder of the four modules within this first year of the inquiry.

Module 1: The relationship between the press and the public and looks at phone-hacking and other potentially illegal behaviour

Module 2: The relationships between the press and police and the extent to which that has operated in the public interest

Module 3: The relationship between press and politicians
Module 4: Recommendations for a more effective policy and regulation that supports the integrity and freedom of the press while encouraging the highest ethical standards.

Witness list for this week (30th January to 2nd February) to be found HERE
Video Recordings of each day's proceedings HERE
Live Feed From Leveson Inquiry Site HERE
BBC Democracy Live Feed HERE 

Guardian Live Blog 
BBC News Leveson Inquiry Page 
#Leveson Twitter Feed 
Dan Sabbagh (Guardian Journalist) Twitter timeline  
Ben Fenton (Journalist FT) live Leveson tweets and comments
Live Blog - Hacking Inquiry - Hacked Off
Hackinginquiry on Twitter (Hacked Off)

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Today's links to articles, info and comments relevant to the Leveson Inquiry (frequently updated) :

• Mysteries of Data Pool 3 Give Rupert Murdoch a Whole New Headache - Guardian Media
• Law and Media Round Up - 30th January 2012 - Inforrm's Blog 
• Met Chief To Be Quizzed By Leveson - Evening Standard 
• Is it Time to End the Online Comments Free-For-All On News Websites? - Press Gazette
• Lord Grade to Give Evidence - Guardian Media
  

@martinjemoore Martin Moore

For dismissive PCC reaction to DPA changes & WPP see 2007 Select Committee submission, para 118- http://ow.ly/8KVHV

• Sun Journalists 'Sacrificed' in News Int Clean-up - Press Gazette
• Up to 30 Jobs to go at Telegraph Titles - Roy Greenslade - Guardian Media
• PCC 'Timorous' With Former NotW Editor Andy Coulson - Scotsman.com 
• PCC 'Not a Regulator' - Guardian Media 
• BBC News - PCC 'Mistake' Over Andy Coulson
• Video - PCC Was Timorous Over Andy Coulson - Telegraph  
• Press release: Teri Everett to leave News Corp 
• Sun Arrests Show That News Corp Is Now at War With Itself - Guardian Media
• PCC Witnesses Face Criticism at Leveson Inquiry - Free Speech Blog 
• Director of the PCC Claims ' Universal' Press Regulation Not Possible - Hacking Inquiry - Hacked Off 
• Sheridan Freed a Year After NoW Perjury Conviction - Press Gazette
• The Leveson Inquiry on the Guardian Teacher Network - Guardian Education
• Google Executives Grilled by MPs Over Privacy - Guardian Media 
• Daily Mail Editor Paul Dacre Wins Orwellian Prize for Journalistic Misrepresentation - The New Journalist  
• PCC Chief Tells Leveson Newspapers Should Be Fined For Breaching Code - Guardian Media 
• Rupert Murdoch Cuts Off Wapping? - Guardian Media  
• Max Clifford: Press Too Cautious After Phone-hacking and Leveson Inquiry - Guardian Media
• Lord Prescott Attacks Press Owners For 'Collusion' Over Libel Reforms - Guardian Media
• Press Gazette Editor's Blog: Arrest of Sun Four is Most Shocking Hacking Development Since Closure of NotW

 (frequently updated)

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Monday 30th January 2012

( Link to Hearing Day 32 HERE )

Today's Witnesses:

Stephen Abell ( Press Complaints Commission )

Tim Toulmin ( Press Complaints Commission )

• PCC Editors' Code of Practice

• Making a Complaint (PCC Website)

• Cases (PCC Website)

• Statement from PCC Website following report on Phone-hacking which stated PCC had not been misled (thanks to @rosschawkins)

• NUJ : Code of Conduct

Stephen Abell

Stephen Abell

• Profile in Guardian Media

• Interview With Stephen Abell - by PCC - Full Text (2010)

• New Statesman - Abell: ' The PCC is Going to Change Considerably'

Witness Statement in Full 

Guardian Live Blog

Tim Toulmin

Tim Toulmin

• Injunctions Are on the Way Out, Instead Lawyers Need to Get Media Savvy - Tim Toulmin - Guardian Law 

• Speech by Tim Toulmin, Director of the PCC, to the European Newspaper Publishers’ Association  

• Ex-Press Complaints Commission Director Toulmin Targets PA Pros With Media Agency 

  



Witness Statement in Full

• BBC News - Internet 'Lacks Forms of redress' - Tim Tolmin - 2006

Guardian Live Blog

1.09pm: Here is a lunchtime summary of today's evidence so far:

• The former PCC director, Tim Toulmin, has defended its decision not to question editors following phone-hacking convictions in 2006.
• Toulmin admitted the PCC cannot be described as a regulator and says it is a "complaints handler".
• Toulmin denied the PCC was dominated by "tripartite" of Paul Dacre, Les Hinton and Sir Christopher Meyer in the late noughties.