A key member of the team advising Alex Salmond and the Scottish Government on new press laws north of the border is the same lawyer who acted for the first minister in a Press Complaints Commission referral against the Mail on Sunday.
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A newspaper industry meeting has heard that the proposed new press regulatory body and arbitration service could lead to a ‘landslide of complaints’ which will have a disproportionate impact on regional, weekly, magazine and smaller publishers...