Leveson report: Victims urge full implementation

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1. Chakrabarti: 'Leveson Law Would Be Unlawful'

A key aide to Lord Justice Leveson claims his calls for press reform laws would be illegal and may breach the Human Rights Act.

Shami Chakrabarti, one of six assessors who worked with the judge on the inquiry, told the Mail On Sunday she could not support legislation because it would "coerce" newspapers into holding higher standards than anyone else, which would be unlawful.

Ms Chakrabarti,the director of civil rights group Liberty , warned that Lord Justice Leveson’s proposal for an independent regulatory body backed up in law could have "serious unintended consequences".

She said: "In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary. A compulsory statute to regulate media ethics in the way the report suggests would violate the Act, and I cannot support it."

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