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Crime and Courts Bill [Lords]

Is it not the case that the incentives are so powerful—with the exemplary damages and the requirement to pay the

other side’s costs, even if their claim may be very poor —that, in essence, we are almost forcing the press into joining the new regulator and being subject to the regulation framework determined by Ministers through the Privy Council?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
560 c702 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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