Through the DSB's rulings, which have largely been respected by both complainants and respondents, an extensive "case law" has developed.Losers have often complained about the practice of using case law from disputes to clarify vague rules.
This was a serious failing, and the BBC is right to apologise to the complainants".
The review panel ("the panel") has been set up by the Scott Trust to ensure that complainants are not disadvantaged by the decision of Guardian News & Media ("GNM") not to join the industry's new self-regulator.
The panel will appoint a complaints officer ("CO"), who will accept complaints from complainants whose complaints have not been resolved to their satisfaction following a final determination of their complaint from the readers' editor ("RE").
This point will also be made explicit in correspondence with complainants.
Unfortunately for Macari and the other complainants, the very fact that a lot of the matches had provided such entertainment and had been so well attended suggested that the new play-off system was here to stay.
However, it wasn't the subject but the idea that we would commission him at all, and might even have possibly taken him on staff – we haven't – that angered the 22 complainants.
"The alleged indecent assaults date from 1980 to 1986 and relate to two complainants aged 14 and 15 at the time of the alleged offending.
We don't know who the complainants are because Google won't tell us, so that means the best way of finding out the identity of the complainant is by searching for the person's name on the relevant domain and seeing if it fails to return the article.
Police sprayed CS gas at close range into the faces of four protesters, causing them great pain, and later at five other students, according to the complainants.
That report did not call for a misconduct meeting, and the complainants appealed.
