More bad ideas imported from the European Union. They actually allowed the EU to steamroll over habeas corpus (from the Magna Carta) by acceding to trials in absentia. The EU is gradually dismantling freedom and inserting “Code Napoleon” (guilty until proven innocent) over all its member states.
I don’t think this is about the EU, its about the recent phone-hacking scandal, in which many sections of the press behaved abominably.
However, as many have already pointed out, pretty much everything that they did wrong was already illegal, but the law was not enforced.