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This is Leveson’s legacy: a great new way for bullies to muzzle the press

By the time complaints are rejected, the damage is done: journalists are fined days of work for voicing unpopular opinions

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One of the fundamental principles of English common law is that you are innocent until proven guilty. And rightly so, for imagine how unfair it would be if any old loon with an axe to grind had only to lodge a trumped-up complaint with the relevant authorities in order to have you punished for no reason whatsoever.

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