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9 Denning L.J. 1 (1994)

handle is hein.journals/denlj9 and id is 1 raw text is: Freedom of the Press: Freedom from the Press* Sir David Calcutt, QC As the Parliamentary Summer Recess once again approaches, it is perhaps appropriate that we should be considering the balance which has yet to be effectively struck between the freedom of the press, and freedom from the press - that is, the freedom of the press to investigate and to inform the public about matters of legitimate public interest; and the freedom of the individual to be protected from public exposure, by the press, of private matters, but in which the public has no legitimate interest. After all, it is now over five years since the Government called for - and called for as a matter of urgency - a Report on the measures needed (whether legislative or otherwise) to give further protection to individual privacy from the activities of the press. It is now over four years since the Government accepted, in principle, the recommendations of the Committee on Privacy and Related Matters that a package of changes (including some legislative changes) was needed, and accepted the recommendation that this must positively be the last chance for the press to get its act together, failing which statutory support would be inevitable. It is now over two years since the Government asked me to review - and to review urgently - the new arrangements which the press had put in place for self-regulation, and to say whether, in my view, those arrangements should now be modified or put on a statutory basis. It is now over 18 months since the Government expressly accepted, in terms, my conclusion that the Press Complaints Commission was not an effective regulator of the press. It is now over 15 months since the National Heritage Select Committee published its Report recommending statutory support for the voluntary regulation of the press. It is now over 12 months since the Secretary of State for National Heritage assured Parliament that the Government envisaged a White Paper setting out the Government's final views on press self-regulation, and said that the Government would do its best to ensure that its response to the Select Committee's Report would be published before * The Child & Co. Lecture 1994.

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