The PCC Code of Practice or The Editor’s Code consists of 16 clauses:
- Accuracy
Opportunity to reply- *Privacy
- *Harassment
- Intrusion into grief or shock
- *Children
- *Children in sex cases
- *Hospitals
- *Reporting of crime
- *Clandestine devices and subterfuge
- Victims of sexual assault
- Discrimination
- Financial journalism
- Confidential sources
- Witness payments in criminal trials
- *Payment to criminals
Clauses marked * may be permitted if it is in the public interest to know.
Considerably more information about these clauses and the public interest can be found here.
