Jonathan Ames talks to Fleet Street GCs about the fallout from Leveson and what it means for in-house workloads
First came the sordid details of Britain’s best-selling newspaper hacking the phone of a murdered schoolgirl. Then came the inquiry and a cavalcade of top-tier celebrities mixed with a collection of the wannabes and the washed-up. That was followed by more gut-wrenching tales of press mistreatment of ordinary people, ranging from former schoolteachers to the families of killed and wounded soldiers.
