According to the Newspaper Society: At a hearing on Wednesday, Associated Newspapers asked Lord Justice Leveson to clarify the role of the assessors and consider appointing more of them to provide wider newspaper expertise. The concerns were shared by Guardian News & Media, Trinity Mirror, the Newspaper Publishers Association and the Newspaper Society.
Lord Leveson said he would reserve judgment on whether to appoint additional assessors.
The current inquiry assessors are: Sir David Bell, former chairman of the FT and until recently chairman of the Media Standards Trust; Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty; Lord Currie, former chairman of Ofcom; Elinor Goodman, former political editor for Channel 4 News; George Jones, former political editor of the Daily Telegraph; and Sir Paul Scott-Lee, former chief constable of West Midlands Police.
