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The UK Communications Regulator, Ofcom, has for the first time imposed a financial sanction on a broadcaster for inadequate compliance procedures. International Television Channel Europe (ITCE) is a general broadcaster on the digital satellite platform, aimed at the Bangladeshi audience in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. A standard licence requires licensees to adopt procedures to ensure that their programmes comply in all respects with their licence conditions and to ensure that such procedures are observed, in particular by ensuring that there are sufficient qualified or trained staff to do so. In...

Ofcom has determined that the Channel 4 News report on 25 August 2015 concerning the aftermath of the Shoreham air show crash two days earlier was in breach of Rule 5.1 of the Ofcom code, as it did not report facts concerning the circumstances of two of the crash victims with due accuracy. Channel 4 News is produced by Independent Television News (ITN) for Channel 4, a terrestrial public service TV station in the UK. On 23 August 2015 a vintage aircraft crashed onto a main road at Shoreham, West Sussex, England, during a display at an air show, killing 11 people. On 25 August 2015 Channel 4 News...

Ofcom determined that global news and current affairs channel RT, produced in Russia and funded by the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, had unfairly and unjustly treated the BBC in its depiction of the British public service broadcaster’s reporting on the Syrian crisis. The BBC complained about an episode of RT’s current affairs programme Truthseeker entitled “Media staged Syrian Chem Attack” and broadcast several times in March 2014. The programme made allegations concerning three BBC news reports shown on BBC News at Ten on 29 August 2013, 30 September...

Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, has decided to take the regulation of video-on-demand services in-house. These services were previously regulated by the Authority for Video on Demand (ATVOD), designated in 2010 as the co-regulator to take the lead in regulating editorial content for these services (see IRIS 2010-5/27). ATVOD originated as a self-regulatory body but was restructured with the creation of a board, with a majority of members independent of the industry. Ofcom retained concurrent responsibility to act in addition to, or in place of, ATVOD. The services include catch-up TV, on-demand...

On 21 October 2012, the Mail Online (owned by Associated Newspapers Ltd) published an online article which bore the headline "A family day out". It showed photographs, taken by an unnamed photographer, of musician Paul Weller and some of his children, out shopping in the street, and relaxing at a café on the edge of the street in California, United States. On 16 April 2014, there was a finding at first instance of liability for misuse of private information. In that judgment, Dingemans J awarded Paul Weller’s three children a total of GBP 10,000 damages in respect of seven photographs published....