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Authored by: Ian Al on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 04:07 AM EDT |
No, it doesn't do that. The UK press will set up an independent adjudication
counsel under royal charter. If a press organisation chooses to join the scheme
(some have declared they will, others are holding off, some have said they
won't) then it must operate under the charter terms including publishing
adequate rebuttals and exemplary fines.
The terms of the charter are set by law. The terms can only be changed with the
agreement of a two thirds majority of parliament and the support of the Prime
Minister and opposition leader.
Any publisher not joining the chartered association is subject to the full,
existing force of the laws of libel, including bloggers and web publishers. You
may remember that a libelled political figure used the law to force a settlement
with bloggers, broadcasters and publishers in recent months.
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Regards
Ian Al
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