The letters called on the PCC to resist calls to strengthen clause 12 of the code, which states that "the press must avoid prejudicial or pejorative reference to an individual's race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or to any physical or mental illness or disability".
The clause on discrimination states that "the press must avoid prejudicial or pejorative reference to an individual's race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or to any physical or mental illness or disability".
A clause in the editors' code, about discrimination, states that the press "must avoid prejudicial or pejorative reference to an individual's race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or to any physical or mental illness or disability".
He also took account of the clause in the editors' code of practice that deals with discrimination: "The press must avoid prejudicial or pejorative reference to an individual's race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or to any physical or mental illness or disability".
"Clause 12 is very clear that newspapers must avoid prejudicial, pejorative or irrelevant reference to an individual's sexual orientation and the reference to Miss Balding plainly breached its terms".
It states that the press must avoid prejudicial or pejorative reference to an individual's sexual orientation.
Clause 12 of its code of conduct is clear that newspapers should avoid "prejudicial or pejorative reference" to an individual's sexual orientation.
Clause 12 of the editors' code of practice states that the press must avoid "prejudicial or pejorative reference to an individual's, race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or to any physical or mental illness or disability".
In both cases, we believed the paper was guilty of breaking the PCC's code of conduct on discrimination – which states: "The press must avoid prejudicial or pejorative reference to a person's race, colour, religion, sex or sexual orientation or to any physical or mental illness or disability".
