Newsgathering: Law, Regulation and the Public Interest

• First text to draw together all the law and other regulatory rules that govern the practice of newsgathering.
• Takes into account Lord Justice Leveson's 2012 report published after the public inquiry into issues of British press culture, practices and ethics raised by the News International phone hacking scandal.
• Prominent media barrister Gavin Millar QC and well respected academic Dr Andrew Scott provide media law experience you can rely on.

This pioneering work draws together the law and other regulatory rules that relate to newsgathering. Written in the post-Leveson environment, each chapter considers a specific newsgathering practice, and covers ethics, (self-) regulatory rules, common law and statutory oversight.

In addition to covering the law of England and Wales, the work draws on the relevant jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and applicable EU law. 

Written by highly-regarded authors Gavin Millar QC and Dr Andrew Scott, this is the first text to cover the full range of newsgathering issues from a legal perspective.

Readership: Legal practitioners active in media law and/or public law and civil liberties; in-house lawyers with news and media organisations; academics and postgraduate researchers interested in media law, media studies and journalism; journalists.