Who owns the press complaints commission

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Username Please enter your Username. Password Please enter your Password. Photograph: Pa. Reuse this content. The Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka PCCSL provides a voluntary self regulatory method to resolve inaccuracies that may occur in newspapers, magazines, journals and online editions of newspapers.

The Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka PCCSL is a voluntary self-regulatory mechanism inaugurated on October 15, by the media industry following an international conference whose outcome was the Colombo Declaration on Press Freedom and Social Responsibility of and re-visited in and It works on the principles of conciliation, mediation and arbitration under the Arbitration Act No 11 of The High Court of Colombo is empowered to enforce an arbitration award made under the Act; in the event a newspaper fails to publish the decision of the Dispute Resolution Council of the PCCSL should a complainant wish to pursue a case where the editor is not abiding by the arbitral decision.

The move is seen as an attempt by the industry to make a clean break with the past and try to regain public confidence, without the need for the government to impose statutory controls on the press. But it may not go far enough for the PCC's critics, some of whom accuse the press of trying to pre-empt the Leveson report. He told Sky News: "We're very much on the front foot and listening to all sides and determined to bring forward the sort of independent, self-regulatory structure that everyone will approve of.

Its general secretary, Michelle Stanistreet, said: "The PCC's entire history and that of the Press Council before it, indeed all regulation of the press since the Second World War, is a tale of too little, too late.

Ms Stanistreet said any new organisation must cut all links with the past. For the time being he is being replaced by a small transition team, the PCC says.