The former judge who presided over the government’s inquiry into media regulation has told the parliamentary committee examining the vexed issue that even with no evidence of misbehaviour, media regulation was necessary and the current raft of legislation would have a "relatively minor" impact. Yesterday, former Federal Court judge Ray Finkelstein QC, who was appointed by the federal government to chair the inquiry into print media in late 2011, for the first time offered his views of the raft of proposed legislation the government is attempting to push through parliament.