I equally believe that self-regulation must carry with it at least the notion that there are some rules to which injured parties can point in seeking redress from abuse of press power. That is the nub of the issue. Can press power be abused without defamation – by intrusion on people's privacy – in a manner which seriously injures innocent and vulnerable people? If so, are such people to be given any redress or protection from such non-defamatory abuse? If a newspaper proprietor or editor were to thumb his or her nose at generally accepted ethics and seriously injure an ordinary citizen would that be a case of "it's just too bad"? If the answer to the last question is in the negative, the question arises as to whether a statutory press council, however composed, should have some capacity to right wrongs or to deter future wrongs.