Types of outcomes
Complaints to the Council may result in one of three broad types of outcome:
ADJUDICATION: the Council or its Adjudication Panel issues an adjudication on the complaint;
REMEDY WITHOUT ADJUDICATION: the publication agrees to take some remedial action (provide an explanation, right of reply, correction or apology) and the complaint is not referred for adjudication;
Summaries of Adjudications
Summaries of recent adjudications are provided in chronological order, below, beginning with the most recent adjudication.
Full texts of adjudications
The full texts of all adjudications since March 2005 are available here. Texts of earlier adjudications are available through the AustLII website.
You can also use a more thorough search on our Adjudications by using our Document Finder or by using the AUSTLII Database Search. Just type in the specific keywords you require, i.e Accuracy, Fairness, etc.
Remedies without adjudication
Examples are provided here of complaints in which remedial action has been provided and there has been no referral for adjudication.
Statistics about the nature and outcome of complaints
Statistics about the nature and outcome of complaints are published in the Council’s Annual Reports. Recent statistics which have not yet been published in an Annual Report are here.
Summaries of Adjudications