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| Press regulation: Papers lose Privy Council injunction bid | Press regulation: Papers lose Privy Council injunction bid |
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| Newspaper publishers have lost a bid to stop ministers going to the Privy Council later to seek the Queen's approval for a royal charter on UK press regulation. | |
| At the High Court, publishers argued the Privy Council had not considered their own proposed charter fairly. | |
| But two judges refused them an injunction and said there were no grounds for a judicial review. | |
| The publishers are considering a challenge to the Court of Appeal later. | |
| Following the phone-hacking affair and subsequent Leveson Inquiry, politicians and the press drew up their own charters. | |
| Both propose a "recognition panel" to oversee a press self-regulation committee with powers to impose fines of up to £1m on newspapers for wrongdoing. | |
| The press charter would require industry-wide approval for any amendments, while the politicians' version - backed by the three mainstream parties - could be changed by a two-thirds majority in Parliament. | |
| Some in the media claim this could let governments encroach on press freedom. | |
| The BBC's media correspondent David Sillito said the Royal Charter was expected to go before the Privy Council at 17:30 GMT so there was still time for an appeal to be made before then. | |
| A senior industry source told our political correspondent, Ross Hawkins, that the papers were meeting lawyers and considering whether to appeal, but no decision had been made yet. | |
| Hacked Off's executive director Brian Cathcart said: "The Royal Charter is good for journalism, good for freedom of speech, and - vitally - good for the public. | |
| "What Mr Murdoch and his friends are clinging to is the right to lie, twist, bully and intrude, inflicting misery on innocent people. That has to stop." |