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J O U R N A L I S M W E E K LY<br />
www.pressgazette.co.uk 25 October 2012<br />
Leveson<br />
Publishers fight<br />
state regulation<br />
PICTURE: REUTERS<br />
BY DOMINIC PONSFORD<br />
The major journalism publishers this<br />
week rallied for a last-ditch fight against<br />
any form of statutor y regulation with<br />
the launch of a coalition called the Free<br />
Speech Network.<br />
Publishers fear that Lord Justice<br />
Leveson will recommend that the Press<br />
Complaints Commission is replaced<br />
with a new `independent' regulator<br />
underpinned by statute.<br />
His report is due to be published in<br />
the autumn at some point.<br />
If he does recommend a new<br />
statutor y regulator it will be up to the<br />
Government whether or not to enforce<br />
his recommendations in full.<br />
Prime Minister David Cameron said<br />
last month that he would implement<br />
Leveson's recommendations provided<br />
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