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Who regulates the regulators?
who should take the decision as to the balance to be struck between competing public interests, and to whom are such people accountable?

 
The Rt Hon Lord Justice Leveson, on the Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press

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From Regulatory Capture to Regulatory Space?

 

The root of the problem was an intellectual or moral failure to identify, follow up, and contain concentrations of risk
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The Leveson Inquiry: There's a bargain to be struck over media freedom and regulation

The Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practice, and ethics of the British press was triggered when the phone-hacking scandal’s full scale became clear in July 2011 and closed the...

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The Purposes, Organization, and Supervision of Regulators: Implications for Accountability and Liability

As recent events in the financial sector have demonstrated, the action or inaction of regulators can profoundly affect lives and livelihoods. It follows that regulators must operate within...
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Integrated Water Resources Management and the Right to Water Security

The purpose of this policy brief is to reflect upon global objectives for water management and the way that these relate to national concerns...

Rights, Interests, and the Water Resource: Crossing the Rubicon?

This policy brief discusses the fitness for purpose of rights-based approaches to the freshwater resource, and the increasing significance of...

From Regulatory Capture to Regulatory Space?

The policy brief revisits the idea of regulatory capture to explore the influences that changed financial sector regulation, including new...

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Leveson and the Royal Charter: an unsatisfactory stalemate

When Lord Justice Leveson published his recommendation that newspapers should operate a system of independent self-regulation, he surely cannot...

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