The Report of the Law Commission on Aggravated, Exemplary and Restitutionary Damages

¶should be adopted in relation to its recommendations that legislation should provide that:

¶(a) aggravated damages should only be awarded to compensate for mental distress and should have no punitive element; (b) exemplary damages should be retained (although re-titled as punitive damages).73

Exemplary damages (whether so described or renamed as punitive damages) should be available for actions for breach of privacy, breach of confidence and similar media torts, as well as for libel and slander. The application to a defendant of any relevant system of regulation of standards enforcement which is contained in or recognised by statute and good internal governance in relation to the sourcing of stories should be relevant to the decisions reached in relation to such damages.74

¶Costs 73. The Civil Procedure Rules should be amended to require the court, when considering the appropriate order for costs at the conclusion of proceedings, to take into account the availability of an arbitral system set up by an independent regulator itself recognised by law. The purpose of this recommendation is to provide an important incentive for every publisher to join the new system and encourage those who complain that their rights have been infringed to use it as a speedy, effective and comparatively inexpensive method of resolving disputes.75

In the absence of the provision of an approved mechanism for dispute resolution, available through an independent regulator without cost to the complainant, together with an adjustment to the Civil Procedure Rules to require or permit the court take account of the availability of cost free arbitration as an alternative to court proceedings, qualified one way costs shifting should be introduced for defamation, privacy, breach of confidence and similar media related litigation as proposed by Lord Justice Jackson.76

¶The Press and the Police

¶Off-the-record briefings 75. The term 'off-the-record briefing' should be discontinued. The term 'non-reportable briefing' should be used to cover a background briefing which is not to be reported, and the term

¶'embargoed briefing' should be used to cover a situation where the content of the briefing may be reported but not until a specified event or time. These terms more neutrally describe what are legitimate police and media interactions.77

It should be mandatory for ACPO rank officers to record all of their contact with the media, and for that record to be available publicly for transparency and audit purposes. This record need be no more than a very brief note to the effect that a conversation has taken place and the subject matter of that conversation. Where the discussion involves a more significant operational or organisational matter, then it may be sensible for a more detailed note to be retained. Finally, in circumstances where policy or organisation matters may be on the agenda for discussion, it is good practice for a press officer also to be present.78
The simple rule included within the 'Interim ACPO Guidance for Relationships with the Media' should be adopted as good practice.79 This is:

"Police officers and staff should ask: 'am I the person responsible for communicating about this issue and is there a policing purpose for doing so?' If the answer to both parts of this question is 'yes', they should go ahead."

¶Leaks of information 78. The Police Service should re-examine the rigour of the auditing process and the frequency of the conduct of audits in relation to access to the Police National Computer (PNC). Additional consideration should also be given to the number of people given access to the PNC and the associated rules which govern its usage.80

¶Gifts, hospitality and entertainment 79. The recent ACPO Guidance should more specifically spell out the dangers of consuming alcohol in a setting of casual hospitality (without necessarily specifying a blanket ban).81

¶Media employment 80. Consideration should be given to the terms upon which ACPO rank officers are appointed and, in particular, whether these terms should include some limitation upon the nature of any employment within or by the media that can be undertaken without the approval of the relevant authority for a period of 12 months following the cessation of the appointment.82

¶(a) greater prominence should be given to the Public Interest Disclosure Act (PIDA) telephone line operated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC); (b) there should be an 'ethics line' to the IPCC, available for all serving Police Officers, providing general ethical guidance; (c) to avail those at rank of Chief Constable (Assistant Commissioner level within the

Metropolitan Police Service), Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary should identify one of its members, a former Chief Constable, as the designated point of contact for confidential ethics guidance. The Chief Officer seeking and obtaining that advice would be able to refer to it should any issue subsequently arise on a complaint to a Professional Standards Department, a Police and Crime Commissioner, or indeed the IPCC itself. The advice would not be determinative of the complaint, but the fact that it was sought and received, as well as its content, would be a matter to be taken into account;

¶(d) within the IPCC itself, there is a need for an enhanced 'filter system' whereby the nature

of complaints are appropriately addressed at an early stage so that (a) they can be investigated at the right level, and (b) sufficient structures are put in place to maintain confidentiality of the complaint, and differentiate as soon as is appropriate between genuine whistleblowers and those who are merely ventilating a personal grievance;

¶(e) the former Chief Constable referred to under sub-paragraph (c) above should also be

the recipient of complaints about Chief Constables made to the IPCC. In the event that he or she may already have given informal advice in relation to the subject-matter of the complaint, as per sub-paragraph (c) above, a substitute HMI would be deputed to act; and

¶(f) Chief Officers should also be the subject of regular independent scrutiny by HMIC, including through unannounced inspections.

¶The Press and Politicians 82. As a first step, political leaders should reflect constructively on the merits of publishing on behalf of their party a statement setting out, for the public, an explanation of the approach they propose to take as a matter of party policy in conducting relationships with the press.84

Party Leaders, Ministers and Front Bench Opposition spokesmen should consider publishing:85

¶(a) the simple fact of long term relationships with media proprietors, newspaper editors or senior executives which might be thought to be relevant to their responsibilities and,

¶(b) on a quarterly basis:

i. details of all meetings with media proprietors, newspaper editors or senior executives, whether in person or through agents on either side, and the fact and general nature of any discussion of media policy issues at those meetings; and ii. a fair and reasonably complete picture, by way of general estimate only, of the frequency or density of other interaction (including correspondence, phone, text and email) but not necessarily including content.

The suggestions that I have made in the direction of greater transparency about meetings and contacts should be considered not just as a future project but as an immediate need, not least in relation to interactions relevant to any consideration of this Report.86

¶Plurality and Media Ownership 85. The particular public policy goals of ensuring that citizens are informed and preventing too much influence in any one pair of hands over the political process are most directly served by concentrating on plurality in news and current affairs. This focus should be kept under review.87

Online publication should be included in any market assessment for consideration of plurality.88
Ofcom and the Government should work, with the industry, on the measurement framework, in order to achieve as great a measure of consensus as is possible on the theory of how media plurality should be measured before the measuring system is deployed, with all the likely commercial tensions that will emerge.89
The levels of influence that would give rise to concerns in relation to plurality must be lower, and probably considerably lower, than the levels of concentration that would give rise to competition concerns.90
Ofcom has presented the Inquiry and the Government with a full menu of potential remedies, and it has not been argued or suggested that any of them are inappropriate in principle. Each of them might be appropriate in a given set of circumstances and the relevant regulatory authority should have all of them in its armoury.91
The Government should consider whether periodic plurality reviews or an extension to the public interest test within the markets regime in competition law is most likely to provide a timely warning of, and response to, plurality concerns that develop as the result of organic growth, recognising that the proposal for a regular plurality review is more closely focussed on plurality issues.92
Before making a decision to refer a media merger to the competition authorities on public interest grounds, the Secretary of State should consult relevant parties as to the arguments for and against a referral, and should be required to make public his reasons for reaching a decision one way or the other.93
The Secretary of State should remain responsible for public interest decisions in relation to media mergers. The Secretary of State should be required either to accept the advice provided by the independent regulators, or to explain why that advice has been rejected. At the same time, whichever way the Secretary of State decides the matter, the nature and extent of any submissions or lobbying to which the Secretary of State and his officials and advisors had been subject should be recorded and published.94

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¶Counsel to the Inquiry

¶Robert Jay QC

¶David Barr

¶Carine Patry Hoskins

¶Lucinda Boon

¶The following members of the team are qualified barristers who provided legal assistance to Counsel to the Inquiry:

¶Heather Emmerson

¶Toby Fisher

¶William Irwin

¶Josephine Norris

¶Inquiry Team1

¶Kate Arrowsmith

¶Abi Brooks

¶Kim Brudenell

¶Rachel Clark

¶Rowena Collins Rice

¶James Court

¶Khaleel Desai

¶Nicola Enston

¶Sharron Hiles

¶Amanda Jeffery

¶Philip Lawley

¶Nicola Massally

¶Simon Miller

¶Carole-Ann Montgomery

¶Joanne Osei-Asiamah

¶John Toker

¶Karen Wood

¶Ruby Yau

¶In preparing the Report, the Inquiry was assisted by:

¶Catherine Dobson

¶Hannah McCarthy

¶Emily Wilsdon not all members of the Inquiry Team were employed for the full duration of the Inquiry

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¶Submissions and correspondence statistics 1. Introduction

¶Over the course of the Inquiry, submissions and emails have been received from members of the public, industry stakeholders, campaign and interest groups as well as academics, through the general enquiries mailbox. The Inquiry has been committed to publishing these statistics on the Inquiry's website on a monthly basis.1

Submissions

¶The following submissions have been received by the Inquiry since the start of formal public hearings, between 14 November 2011 and 31 October 2012:

Journalist (current) — 24
Journalist (former) — 43
Editor (current) — 6
Editor (former) — 7
Academic — 53
Broadcaster — 4
Members of the public — 590
MP/Peer — 27
Victim of press treatment — 163
Campaign organisation — 83
Press photographer — 10
Police (current) — 8
Police (former) — 11
PI or investigatory body — 2
Regulator — 13
Trade association — 4
Legal — 18
Other — 17

¶The Inquiry has received a total of 1,083 submissions between 14 November 2011 and 31

¶October 2012. Table 1 below shows the monthly breakdown of the number of submissions received each month, by author type.

¶http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/about/submissions-and-emails-received/

Total Submissions Received through the General Enquiries Mailbo Author Type 14-Nov 14-Dec Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul 2012 Aug Sep Oct to 13- to 31- 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 APPENDICES Dec Jan

¶this figure excludes 2 submissions which were processed outside of the General Enquiries Mailbox (and recorded at a

Journalist (Current)⁹⁹ ibid 5 0 1 3 1 3 1 0 0 — 0
Journalist (Former)¹⁸¹⁸ p4, Professor Baroness Onora O'Neill, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Witness- Statement-of-Professor-Baroness-ONeil.pdf 5 3 3 3 4 2 1 1 1 — 0
Editor (Current)²² Purpose 49 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 — 0
Editor (Former)⁵⁵ Press freedom within the rule of law and the role of statute 65 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0
Academic 21 12 2 2 1 3 12 1 0 0 — 0
Broadcaster n/a n/a 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 — 1

¶later date); or were supplementary submissions which were not counted as new submissions for the January total

Members of the Public 215 73 40 19 34 60 93 31 6 5 — 2
MP / Peer 10 6 2 2 0 2 2 3 0 0 — 0
Victim of press treatment 93 24 16 9 2 3 5 3 3 3 — 0
Campaign organisation 23 20 7 7 2 1 7 10 3 0 — 0

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Press photographer 4 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 — 0
Police (current)¹¹ Introduction and background 1164 0 2 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 — 0

¶this figure excludes 18 submissions which were processed outside of the General Enquiries Mailbox (and recorded at

Police (former)¹¹ Purchase of The Times and The Sunday Times 1233 4 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0
PI or investigatory body n/a n/a 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0
Regulator 7 2 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 — 0
Trade Association n/a n/a 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 — 0
Legal 2 7 3 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 — 0
Other 0 6 2 1 0 0 3 5 1 0 — 0

¶a later date); or were supplementary submissions which were not counted as new submissions for the February total

Total:⁴¹¹⁴¹¹ p5, para 17, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Witness-Statement-of-Lisa-MacLeod.pdf 1692 873 49 49 77 135 58 15 10 — 3

Percentage change by Month4 (%): n/a -59 -49 -44 0 +36 +75 -57 -74 -33 -70

¶figures rounded to the nearest whole number

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¶Appendix 2 | Submissions and Correspondence Statistics

General enquiries correspondence In addition to the 1,083 submissions received through the general enquiries mailbox, the Inquiry has also received 2,502 general pieces of correspondence since the start of formal public hearings on 14 November 2011. These have been categorised accordingly:

2,452 enquiries;
22 FOI queries; and
28 pieces of other correspondence.

Website views Between 14 November 2011 and 31 October 2012, the Leveson Inquiry website has received 1,805,939 hits from 652,675 unique visitors from over 200 countries.
Press reporting during the Inquiry Since it was established, the Inquiry has had the benefit of daily summaries of relevant press stories, provided by an independent organisation, from all of the UK national newspapers and some international titles.

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¶Witnesses to the inquiry 1. The following witnesses gave oral evidence to the Inquiry: Witness Date called Stephen Abell 30 January 2012 Lawrence Abramson 13 December 2011 Colin Adwent 26 March 2012 DAC Sue Akers 06 February 2012

27 February 2012 23 July 2012

¶Francis Aldhouse 05 December 2011 Richard Allan 26 January 2012 Chief Constable Simon Ash 26 March 2012 Paul Ashford 12 January 2012 Chris Atkins 06 December 2011 Chief Constable Matt Baggott 28 March 2012 Sly Bailey 16 January 2012 Roger Baker 05 March 2012 Lionel Barber 10 January 2012 Aidan Barclay 23 April 2012 Derek Barnett 03 April 2012 Professor Steven Barnett 08 December 2011

¶18 July 2012 John Battle 23 January 2012 Helen Belcher 08 February 2012 Matthew Bell 20 December 2011 Joanne Bird 28 March 2012 Lord Black of Brentwood 01 February 2012

¶09 July 2012 Chris Blackhurst 10 January 2012 Lord Blair of Boughton 07 March 2012 Tony Blair 28 May 2012 James Blendis 02 February 2012 Adam Boulton 15 May 2012

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¶Colette Bowe 01 February 2012

¶12 July 2012 Jillian Brady 26 June 2012 Alastair Brett 15 March 2012 Barbara Brewis 27 March 2012 Professor George Brock 08 December 2011 Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville 24 May 2012 Rebekah Brooks 11 May 2012 Gordon Brown MP 11 June 2012 Inayat Bunglawala 24 January 2012 Peter Burden 05 December 2011 Mark Burns-Williamson 02 April 2012 Baroness Buscombe 07 February 2012 Bill Butler 02 February 2012 Carla Buzasi 08 February 2012 Lisa Byrne 18 January 2012 Dr Vince Cable MP 30 May 2012 David Cameron MP 14 June 2012 Alastair Campbell 30 November 2011

¶14 May 2012 Anne Campbell 26 March 2012 Professor Brian Cathcart 08 December 2011 Oliver Cattermole 28 March 2012 Lucie Cave 18 January 2012 Jonathan Chapman 14 December 2011 Peter Charlton 18 January 2012 Sara Cheesley 13 March 2012 Charlotte Church 28 November 2011 Kenneth Clarke QC MP 30 May 2012 Martin Clarke 09 May 2012 Peter Clarke 01 March 2012 Nick Clegg MP 13 June 2012 Max Clifford 09 February 2012 Tim Colborne 26 June 2012 David-John Collins 26 January 2012

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¶Lord Condon of Langton Green 06 March 2012 Steve Coogan 22 November 2011 Philip Coppel QC 17 July 2012 Andy Coulson 10 May 2012 Catherine Crawford 29 March 2012 Tom Crone 13 December 2011

¶14 December 2011 Bob Crow 25 January 2012 Colin Crowell 07 February 2012 Giles Crown 26 June 2012 Dr Rowan Cruft 16 July 2012 Chief Constable Mike Cunningham 29 March 2012 Professor James Curran 13 July 2012 Paul Dacre 06 February 2012

¶09 February 2012 Nick Davies 29 November 2011

¶28 February 2012 Richard Desmond 12 January 2012 Anne Diamond 28 November 2011 AC Cressida Dick 12 March 2012 Noel Doran 18 January 2012 Stephen Dorrell MP 23 May 2012 Bob Dowler 21 November 2011 Sally Dowler 21 November 2011 DCI Clive Driscoll 15 March 2012 Matthew Driscoll 19 December 2011 Ian Edmondson 09 February 2012 Jeff Edwards 14 March 2012 John Edwards 09 January 2012 Chris Elliott 17 January 2012 Lloyd Embley 16 January 2012 Claire Enders 17 July 2012 Sir Harold Evans 17 May 2012 Adrian Faber 20 March 2012 Nick Fagge 21 December 2011

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¶Dick Fedorcio 13 March 2012 Spencer Feeney 18 January 2012 Ian Fegan 29 March 2012 Mary-Ellen Field 22 November 2011 Lara Fielden 13 July 2012 Elizabeth Filkin 05 March 2012 Padraic Flanagan 21 December 2011 Garry Flitcroft 22 November 2011 Robin Foster 17 July 2012 Fiona Fox 24 January 2012 Professor Chris Frost 10 July 2012 Jane Furniss 28 March 2012 Tony Gallagher 10 January 2012 Sheryl Gascoigne 23 November 2011 DCI Brendan Gilmour 09 May 2012 Mike Gilson 18 January 2012 Tim Godwin 07 March 2012 Tim Gordon 20 March 2012 Adrian Gorham 02 February 2012 Michael Gove MP 29 May 2012 Lord Grade of Yarmouth 31 January 2012 Christopher Graham 26 January 2012 Hugh Grant 21 November 2011 Jim Gray 23 January 2012 David Allen Green 25 January 2012 Professor Roy Greenslade 12 July 2012 Sir Charles Gray 12 July 2012 Andrew Grice 25 June 2012 Nick Griffiths 26 March 2012 Jonathan Grun 25 January 2012 Stewart Gull 02 April 2012 Jacqui Hames 28 February 2012 James Hanning 19 December 2011 James Harding 17 January 2012

¶07 February 2012

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¶Professor Ian Hargreaves 08 December 2011 Harriet Harman QC MP 12 June 2012 Charlotte Harris 06 December 2011 David Harrison 19 March 2012 Liz Hartley 11 January 2012 Heather Harvey 24 January 2012 Andy Hayman 01 March 2012 Jonathan Heawood 24 January 2012 Peter Hill 12 January 2012 James Hipwell 21 December 2011 Amanda Hirst 27 March 2012 Ian Hislop 17 January 2012 HJK 24 November 2011 Stuart Hoare 19 December 2011 Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe 20 March 2012 Baroness Hollins 02 February 2012 Professor John Horgan 13 July 2012 Professor Jennifer Hornsby 16 July 2012 Chief Constable Stephen House 21 March 2012 Mark Hughes 02 February 2012 Simon Hughes MP 27 February 2012 Lord Hunt of Wirral 31 January 2012

09 July 2012 10 July 2012

¶Jacqui Hunt 24 January 2012 Jeremy Hunt MP 31 May 2012 Terry Hunt 26 March 2012 Ian Hurst 28 November 2011 Tony Imossi 02 February 2012 Christopher Jefferies 28 November 2011

¶28 February 2012 Alan Johnson MP 22 May 2012 Christopher Johnson 20 December 2011 DCI Philip Jones 27 March 2012 Tessa Jowell MP 21 May 2012

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¶John Kampfner 24 January 2012 Daphne Keller 26 January 2012 ACC Jerry Kirkby 27 March 2012 Norman Lamb MP 26 June 2012 Maria Larasi 24 January 2012 Duncan Larcombe 09 January 2012 Sandra Laville 14 March 2012 Jeremy Lawton 19 March 2012 Evgeny Lebedev 23 April 2012 David Leigh 06 December 2011 Mark Lewis 23 November 2011

¶30 November 2011 Will Lewis 10 January 2012 Catherine Llewellyn 21 March 2012 John Lloyd 26 June 2012 Darryn Lyons 09 February 2012 DI Mark Maberly 29 February 2012 Lord MacDonald QC of River Glaven 04 April 2012 Stuart McIntosh 17 July 2012 Dr Daithi Mac Sithigh 08 December 2011 Kelvin MacKenzie 09 January 2012 DC Craig Mackey 26 March 2012 Murdoch MacLennan 10 January 2012 Mazher Mahmood 12 December 2011

¶25 January 2012 Sir John Major 12 June 2012 Manish Malhotra 10 January 2012 Kit Malthouse 29 March 2012 Lord Mandelson of Foy and Hartlepool 21 May 2012 Dr Neil Manson 16 July 2012 Andrew Marr 23 May 2012 Sharon Marshall 20 December 2011 Dr Rob Mawby 03 April 2012 Theresa May MP 29 May 2012 Dr Gerry McCann 23 November 2011

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¶Dr Kate McCann 23 November 2011 Maria McGeoghan 18 January 2012 Paul McKeever 02 April 2012 John McLellan 18 January 2012 Paul McMullan 29 November 2011 Professor Chris Megone 16 July 2012 David Mellor 26 June 2012 Professor Sue Mendus 16 July 2012 Sir Christopher Meyer 31 January 2012 Frederic Michel 24 May 2012 T/ACC Russell Middleton 09 May 2012 Ed Miliband MP 12 June 2012 Sienna Miller 24 November 2011 Heather Mills 09 February 2012 Thomas Mockridge 17 January 2012 Dominic Mohan 09 January 2012

¶07 February 2012 Dr Martin Moore 08 February 2012

¶10 July 2012 Gary Morgan 07 February 2012 Piers Morgan 20 December 2011 Max Mosley 24 November 2011

¶18 July 2012 Will Moy 08 February 2012 John Mullin 10 May 2012 Andrew Mullins 10 January 2012 James Murdoch 24 April 2012 Rupert Murdoch 25 April 2012

¶26 April 2012 James Murray 19 March 2012 Colin Myler 14 December 2011

¶15 December 2011 Dawn Neesom 12 January 2012 Rosie Nixon 18 January 2012 Julie Norgrove 29 March 2012 Steven Nott 06 December 2011

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¶Peter Oborne 17 May 2012 Sir Dennis O'Connor 12 March 2012 Lord O'Donnell of Clapham 14 May 2012 Nathan Oley 02 April 2012 Professor Baroness O'Neill 16 July 2012 Sean O'Neill 21 March 2012 Sir Hugh Orde 28 March 2012 George Osborne MP 11 June 2012 Gary O'Shea 24 January 2012 Alex Owens 30 November 2011

¶5 December 2011 CC Lynne Owens 06 March 2012 Nick Owens 06 February 2012 Brian Paddick 27 February 2012 David Palmer 02 February 2012 Lucy Panton 03 April 2012 Susan Panuccio 17 January 2012 Guy Parker 01 February 2012 Ryan Parry 24 January 2012 Lord Patten of Barnes 23 January 2012 Nicole Patterson 12 January 2012 Jeremy Paxman 23 May 2012 Paul Peachey 14 March 2012 Andrew Penman 16 January 2012 Rupert Pennant-Rea 17 January 2012 Justin Penrose 20 March 2012 Richard Peppiatt 29 November 2011 David Perry QC 04 April 2012 Professor Julian Petley 08 December 2011 Tom Pettifor 20 March 2012 Angela Phillips 08 December 2011

¶13 July 2012 Anne Pickles 26 March 2012 Nigel Pickover 18 January 2012

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¶Julian Pike 13 December 2011

¶20 December 2011 David Pilditch 21 December 2011 Chief Constable Colin Port 27 March 2012 Lord Prescott of Kingston upon Hull 27 February 2012 Ben Priestly 29 March 2012 Bob Quick 07 March 2012 Lord Reid of Cardowan 23 May 2012 Ed Richards 01 February 2012

¶12 July 2012 Peter Riddell 25 June 2012 Finbarr Ronayne 10 January 2012 Viscount Rothermere 10 May 2012 Tom Rowland 23 November 2011 JK Rowling 24 November 2011 Alan Rusbridger 17 January 2012 Jonathan Russell 18 January 2012

¶21 March 2012 John Ryley 23 April 2012 Alex Salmond MSP 13 June 2012 Daniel Sanderson 15 December 2011 CI Sally Seeley 20 March 2012 Graham Shear 21 November 2011 Gillian Shearer 26 March 2012 Rob Shorthouse 21 March 2012 Paul Silva 11 January 2012 Chief Constable Chris Sims 20 March 2012 Gordon Smart 09 January 2012 Adam Smith 24 May 2012

¶25 May 2012 Lord Smith of Finsbury 22 May 2012 Joan Smith 21 November 2011 Tony Smith 02 February 2012 Jon Snow 25 June 2012 Matt Sprake 18 July 2012

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¶Paul Staines 08 February 2012 Michelle Stanistreet 09 February 2012

¶10 July 2012 Keir Starmer QC 08 February 2012

¶04 April 2012 Ed Stearns 03 April 2012 Jonathan Stephens 25 May 2012 Sir Paul Stephenson 05 March 2012 Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington 06 March 2012 CC Jonathan Stoddart 27 March 2012 Jack Straw MP 16 May 2012 Michael Sullivan 15 March 2012 Pam Surphlis 08 February 2012 DCS Keith Surtees 29 February 2012 Tim Suter 12 July 2012 Dr Damian Tambini 18 July 2012 Professor John Tasioulas 16 July 2012 David Thomas 12 July 2012 Richard Thomas 09 December 2011 Mark Thompson 23 January 2012 Mark Thomson 24 November 2011 Neville Thurlbeck 12 December 2011 Hugh Tomlinson QC 13 July 2012 Tim Toulmin 30 January 2012 Chief Constable Andrew Trotter 28 March 2012 Neil Turner 07 February 2012 Steve Turner 20 December 2011 John Twomey 19 March 2012 Steve Unger 17 July 2012 Jonathan Ungoed-Thomas 14 March 2012 Anna Van Heeswijk 24 January 2012 Chief Constable Peter Vaughan 21 March 2012 Lord Wakeham of Maldon 15 May 2012 Justin Walford 09 January 2012 Richard Wallace 16 January 2012

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¶Neil Wallis 12 December 2011

¶2 April 2012 Simon Walters 25 June 2012 Stephen Waring 24 January 2012 James Watson 22 November 2011 Margaret Watson 22 November 2011 Tom Watson MP 22 May 2012 Tina Weaver 16 January 2012 Derek Webb 15 December 2011 Philip Webster 25 June 2012 Hugh Whittow 12 January 2012 DS Philip Williams 29 February 2012 Jane Winter 28 November 2011 John Witherow 17 January 2012 Dan Wootton 06 February 2012 Camilla Wright 26 January 2012 Peter Wright 11 January 2012 Stephen Wright 15 March 2012 John Yates 01 March 2012 Liz Young 28 March 2012 Ronald Zink 07 February 2012

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Written evidence and submissions were received from the following people and groups:

¶A Tim Bratton Dr John Abraham British and Irish Ombudsman Association (BIOA) Bryan Adams British Psychological Society Advertising Standards Agency Benedict Brogan Dr Nafeez Ahmed David Brookes Abigail Alford David Brown Tasmin Allen Kim Brudenell Alternative Libel Project Chris Bryant MP Paul Ashford Bureau of Investigative Journalism Margaret Aspinall Dr Aidan Byrne Julian Assange C Associated News Ltd Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom Association of Medical Research Charities Cancer Research UK

¶Adam Cannon B

¶Carbon Brief Graham Banks

¶Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Jonathan Baume (FDA) Centre Beat Carnegie Trust UK Ailsa Beaton Maggie Carver Kevin Beatty Richard Caseby Sean Bellew The Centre for Investigative Journalism Big Brother Watch The Chartered Institute of Journalists Bishop Hill Citizen Journalism Educational Trust Cherie Blair Simon Citron Tim Blott City University London Phil Boardman Wesley Clarkson Baroness Bottomley Graham Cluley Jim Boumelha Liz Cocks Magnus Boyd College of Social Work The British Press Photographers Association David Colquhoun (BPPA)

¶Paul Connolly Tom Bradby

¶Coordinating Committee for Media Reform Claire Bradley (CCMR) Peter Bradley Dominic Crossley Ben Bradshaw MP Lyn-Marie Cunliffe

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¶D Paddy French Dart Centre Europe Professor Chris Frost Gareth Davies (on behalf of Barclays) G Professor Aeron Davis Professor Ivor Gaber Department of Culture, Media and Sport Gary Gibbon Irene Dennehy Professor Thomas Gibbons The Democratic Society Dr Rodney D Gilbert Disaster Action Glasgow University Seamus Dooley Deborah Glass Ian Down Peter Gold Dr Sallyanne Duncan Professor David Golding Greg Dyke Goldsmiths College E Timothy Gordon Early Resolution DCS Iain Goulding East London Mosque and London Muslim Philip Graf Centre Mike Granatt EAVES Housing Damian Green MP Audrey Edwards Rob Greener Paul Edwards Dr Chris Greer Nicholas Eldred Geordie Greg Martin Ellice George Greig Harriet Ellis Deborah Grobbelaar End Violence Against Women (EVAW)

¶H