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Complaints Summary

Report Number: 72 for the Months of:

October, November, December 2005 & January, February, March 2006

Complaints made under the Code

Resolved or sufficient action offered to resolve ¹	202
Not pursued by complainant	37
Adjudicated	17
Upheld Sufficient action offered	8 2
Rejected	7
No case under the Code	204

Complaints not investigated under the Code

Outside remit ²	391
Disallowed on ground of unjustified delay	9
Third party complaints	77
Complaints not formalised ³	755
Total of all complaints	1692

Explanation:

¹ These are complaints resolved to the express satisfaction of those complaining or those complaints in which the Commission judged that an offer of remedial action by the editor was sufficient to remedy any possible breach of the Code of Practice.

² These complaints related to areas falling outside the Commission's terms of reference such as advertising material, contractual disputes and questions of taste.

³ This total includes cases in which initial contact with the PCC was made by complainants, but which were not pursued past an initial stage.