Leveson says examining press standards is not an attack on free speech

    Date: 
    26 June 2012

    Lord Justice Leveson has stressed there is no “hidden agenda” to his Inquiry into press standards. In opening remarks to this morning’s session — which were posted on the Inquiry website — Leveson said he understood “only too well” journalists’ anxieties over the “dangers of a knee-jerk response” to the phone-hacking scandal that erupted last summer, but added that “no recommendations have been formulated or written; no conclusions have yet been reached.”