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David Sherborne, counsel for victims of phone hacking and press intrusion, reacts to the findings of the Leveson report.

David Sherborne, the lawyer representing victims at the Leveson Inquiry, called the report "a weighty and impressive document" and welcomed Lord Leveson's recommendation for an independent regulator of the press, backed up by statute.

"In the face of compelling and often disturbing evidence, which my clients gave to the Inquiry, about their experiences at the hands of the press over the years, the need for a strong and independent regulator is frankly unarguable," he said.

"Today it seems we have finally learned from the failings of the past, and it is time now to implement these judicial recommendations within a timeframe so that if the press fails to create this independent regulator, it must be this parliament which imposes a statutory system upon them."

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