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Mistakes and Rulings

Digest of the latest newspaper and media legal settlements, regulatory rulings, corrections and mistakes.

If you spot a media mistake we have missed, and which others can learn from, please email: pged@pressgazette.co.uk.

Latest in Mistakes and Rulings

Libel | The Sun

Sun publisher News Group Newspapers has paid a "very substantial" five-figure sum to solicitor Uma Rajasundram.

Complaint | BBC News

30/3/22: BBC News has responded to complaints about an article that referred to a pensioner arrested for murder with female pronouns,…

Correction | BBC News

BBC News has edited an article about endometriosis to replace the word "people" with the word "women" and remove the…

Libel | Laura Murray vs The Telegraph

17/3/22: The Telegraph has apologised and will pay "substantial" damages after falsely suggesting ex-Labour staffer Laura Murray was an “anti-Jewish…

IPSO | Various vs Daily Express

IPSO agreed the Daily Express broke the Editors' Code with two August 2021 articles which claimed that Brits were being…

Ofcom | BBC News at Six

Ofcom ruled BBC News at Six breached the Broadcasting Code with a statement that: "Alex Salmond said he believes Nicola…

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