Lord Justice Leveson has put forward proposals for tougher media self-regulation and a new press law that could hand a statutory body such as OFCOM responsibility to monitor the press, in his much-awaited report published today (29 November).

The 2,000-page report, which calls for the biggest shakeup of media law in years, follows last year’s hacking scandal and the subsequent Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press.