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Date: Friday, March 11 2011 12:54 AM Subject: FW: Daily Mail From: GMAX To: J Jep <jeevacation@gmail.com>; ------ Forwarded Message From: Reply-To: < Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:40:11 -0500 To: NY Max Subject: Fw: Daily Mail Please see below. My take:A) voluntary rules are meaningless in terms of arranging for a cessation of crap articles/stories etcB) doesn't offer redress (financial or in terms of publicity.Law here definitely provides more protection and redress if individual(s) involved in approaches from newspapers are employees or have any form of contractual relationship with target.Let's talk. Kevinx Kevin MaxwellAvenue Partners Limited35 Park LaneLondon W1K re: x a From: Ross gow Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:29:24 +0000 To: GMAX Ce: Brian Bashan; Ross Gow >; Ian Ian Maxwell< >; Kevin Maxwell >; Gareth Thompson< FP Cti‘ONCOC:*Cté‘étCS Subject: Re: Daily Mail Maz is the most devious and cunning of the bunch. However, Editors can pay for people, stories and documents. They can even pay criminals if it is in the public interest. Maz can pay who he wants for info but the Yorkshire Ripper for instance, as a convicted criminal, can't sell his story...unless in public interest cos there was say, a bent detective. Below is from PCC Code for Editors. It is not well drafted. 15 Witness payments in criminal trials i) No payment or offer of payment to a witness - or any person who may reasonably be expected to be called as a witness - should be made in any case once proceedings are active as defined by the Contempt of Court Act 1981. This prohibition lasts until the suspect has been freed unconditionally by police without charge or bail or the proceedings are otherwise discontinued; or has entered a guilty plea to the court; or, in the event of a not guilty plea, the court has announced its verdict. *11) Where proceedings are not yet active but are likely and foreseeable, editors must not make or offer payment to any person who HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030222