Press Complaints Commission >> Statistics >> January / February / March 1997

Complaints Summary

Report Number: 37 for the Months of:

January,February,March,1997

Outside remit ¹	140
Disallowed on ground of unjustifiable delay	19
No case under the Code	193
Third party complaints²	30
Complaints resolved directly and otherwise not pursued ³	71
Sufficient remedial action taken or offered by the publication
Adjudicated	23
Upheld	9
Rejected	14
Total	476

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.