The complainant sought leave to present a judicial review of the respondent’s refusal to transmit his party election broadcast on the grounds of its absence of taste and decency.
Held: The decision that the offending parts of the transmission did not meet the requirements of decency and taste, was not perverse. Nor was it arguable that the BBC has misapplied its own stated policy. It was suggested in argument that the BBC had acted in an inconsistent manner, but almost daily viewers are subjected to harrowing scenes of massacres and the like and from to time shots are shown of Nazi atrocities in the concentration camps. Even if there were inconsistency, that does not seem to me to give rise to an arguable case there has been perversity in the instant case.
Judges:
Dyson J
Citations:
[1997] EWHC Admin 316
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Appeal from – Regina v British Broadcasting Corporation ex parte Quintavelle (PPC for the Prolife Alliance) CA 20-Oct-1997
The applicant stood for Parliament, but the respondent had refused to show his party election broadcast on the grounds of its lack of taste and decency. He had sought to demonstrate the evils of abortion, and now renewed his application for leave to . .
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Elections, Media
Updated: 25 May 2022; Ref: scu.137261