Press Complaints Commission >> Statistics >> January / February / March 2003

Complaints Summary

Report Number: 61 for the Months of:

January, February, March 2003

Outside remit ¹	168
Disallowed on ground of unjustifiable delay	29
No case under the Code	174
Third party complaints²	61
Complaints resolved directly and otherwise not pursued ³	342
Sufficient remedial action taken or offered by the publication	36
Adjudicated	5
Upheld	4
Rejected	1
Total	815

Explanation:

¹ These complaints related to areas falling outside the Commission's terms of reference such as advertising material, contractual disputes and questions of taste.

² This total includes third party complaints that might have been pursued had those directly involved agreed to a PCC investigation and those third party complaints that were, in any event, assessed as raising no breach of the Code of Practice.

³ These are the complaints resolved to the express satisfaction of those complaining and those not pursued by complainants after a response has been received from the publication.