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Complaints Summary

Report Number: 79 for the Months of:

April - SEptember 2009

Complaints made under the Code

Resolved or sufficient action offered to resolve 1
 322
Not pursued by complainant 82
Adjudicated 22
Upheld
Sufficient action offered
 10
0
Not upheld
 12
No case under the Code 470

Complaints not investigated under the Code

Outside remit 2 417
Disallowed on ground of unjustified delay 2
Third party complaints 3
 449
Complaints not formalised 4
 988
Total of all complaints 2752

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 338 complaints concerning the deaths of Jade Goody (201) and Michael Jackson (137) in OK! magazine.

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

 
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