In April 1997, the government established an Independent Complaints Directorate to investigate deaths in police custody and deaths resulting from police action.

Complaints from Victorians about recently released convicts from Van Diemen's Land re-offending in Victoria was one of the contributing reasons for the eventual abolition of transportation to Van Diemen's Land in 1853.

Complaints from locals around the site in Acton and Concord were filed concerning strange odors and irritants in the air.

The newspaper often had to defend itself from libel charges and complaints to the Press Council ( later the Press Complaints Commission ) as a result of certain news-gathering techniques, such as entrapment, and contentious campaigns.

Complaints from the public are handled by the Legal Complaints Service but this function will shortly pass to the Office for Legal Complaints which will be a single portal for complaints by the public made against all providers of legal services including the Bar, licensed conveyancers etc., but excluding unqualified will-writers.

Report to the Canadian Human Rights Commission on the Complaints of the Inuit People Relocated from Inukjuak and Pond Inlet, to Grise Fiord and Resolute Bay in 1953 and 1955.

Complaints about an online mission giving unfair scores led to Volition removing the mission from scoring play.

On 17 December 2009, Independent Police Complaints Commission investigators and officers from the Metropolitan Police's directorate of professional standards arrested a former police constable and a serving member of Metropolitan Police staff on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice by allegedly withholding evidence from the original murder inquiry, the Kent investigation and the Macpherson inquiry.

Complaints from Florida caused the War Department to order Vose to take action against the bands still off the reservation, but Vose argued that breaking the pledges made to the Indians would have bad results, and the War Department accepted his arguments.

Almost as soon as he was elected, he was required to deal with the fallout from the family of murdered Eltham teenager Stephen Lawrence registering a formal complaint with the Police Complaints Authority, with the police officers in question facing allegations of racism.

Complaints centered around the organization's emphasis on continental French instead of Louisiana French, and its use of imported Francophone teachers from France, Belgium, and Canada, instead of local teachers.

Complaints that artifacts could not be distinguished from naturally fractured stone helped spark a careful study of the technique.

He was Chairman of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission from 1992 to 1996.

Lady Buscombe is a former Chairwoman of the Press Complaints Commission serving from April 2009 until 16 October 2011.

It has been argued, for example, that Locrine borrows from the Complaints of Edmund Spenser, published in 1591, and from The Complaint of Elstred, a poem by Thomas Lodge, written c. 1591, that circulated in manuscript before its first printing in 1593.

Chrysler wanted the Avenger to be a " world car ", and took the ambitious step of marketing the Avenger as the Plymouth Cricket in the U. S. Complaints of rust, unreliability, plus apathy towards small cars amongst buyers in the U. S., saw it withdrawn from that market after only two years.

Complaints from American consumers about the Pontiac GTO's more modern styling saw the addition of two hood scoops in 2005 with the VZ series Monaro to recall the later muscle-car variants of the late 1960s ' models ; the hood scoops vent in cool air to the engine bay but do not directly feed the engine.

An appearance on The Late Late Show in 2008 led to complaints about his jokes involving a methadone user, eastern European immigrant accents, buying a motorbike from an injured biker, and a film idea about gay Traveller spacemen seeking a cure for gayness, eight of which were upheld by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission.

Complaints reached such a feverish pitch in the opening years of the Hundred Years ' War that Edward III launched another nationwide investigation, and effectively removed most purveyors from office.

The Police Act of August 1976 set up a Police Complaints Board “ to formalise the procedure for dealing with public complaints .” The Education Act of November 1976 limited the taking up of independent and direct-grant school places and required all local authorities who had failed to do so “ to submit proposals for comprehensive schools ,” while the Housing ( Homeless Persons ) Act of 1977 extended local authority responsibility “ to provide accommodation for homeless people in their area ,” and instituted the right of homeless families to a permanent local authority tenancy.

For example, San Francisco, California, has its Office of Citizen Complaints, created by voter initiative in 1983, in which civilians who have never been members of the San Francisco Police Department investigate complaints of police misconduct filed against members of the San Francisco Police Department.

In 1997, Lawrence's family registered a formal complaint with the Police Complaints Authority ( PCA ), which in 1999 exonerated the officers who had worked on the case of allegations of racism.

Cox, who was photographed with a telephoto lens whilst on a private island, initially complained to the Press Complaints Commission, who found on her side.

In March 2010 the Press Complaints Commission ( PCC ) upheld a complaint against Liddle, who became the first journalist to be censured over the contents of a blog, because he had not been able to prove his claim about the crime statistics.

Complaints were also sparked regarding the sketch featuring Lucas as Elton John, who was being interviewed about his appearance on TOTP, in which he performed The Lion Kings main theme, " Circle of Life ".

Complaints lodged against the shepherds ' guild, the Mesta, were ignored by Philip II who received a great deal of revenue from wool.

Complaints of the film's " cop-out " ending are questioned by Roger Ebert in his review, who notes: " There seem to be two possible explanations for what finally happens, but neither one is consistent with all of the facts.

Complaints of public indecency were filed with the commander of the Seventh, Colonel Samuel D. Sturgis, who forwarded the complaints, but dismissed any fault of Reno's.

Complaints from passengers who missed their trains caused Metra to remove the turnstiles in November 2003.

Complaints were received at the BBC from the public who were unhappy that Alagiah had been asked to step down.

Following his support of Dar Al-Taqwa ’ s successful complaint to the Press Complaints Commission concerning a deliberately misleading and inflammatory attack by the Evening Standard in July 2005, a group of British journalists ( including Toby Helm, David Cesarani and Daniel Kahtan ) who had never met or interviewed Mr Thomson, retaliated by alleging that Thomson's 1994 book, The Next World Order ( which had, by then, been out of print for several years ), contained allegations that Freemasons and Jews control the governments of Europe and America, and that it was a " big lie " that six million Jews died in the Holocaust.

Complaints were made at the Conference that no scientist had been permitted to examine the map and its companion documents in all the years of study since 1957.

Complaints were normally brought via a bill or petition, which had to show that the common law did not provide a remedy for the problem.

Complaints that it had become a nuisance led to the Urban District Council surrounding the site with a concrete wall.

Complaints had been made about the legality of Dagobert's appointment, and when the pope sent a legate, Maurice, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto, to enquire into the situation, Baldwin accused Dagobert of treachery for urging Bohemond to oppose Baldwin's succession.

Complaints eventually became loud enough that they decided something had to be done.

Complaints included that Kocharyan had not been an Armenian citizen for ten years as required by the constitution., even though it would have been impossible for him to be a 10 year citizen of a republic that was less than 7 years old ; however, the Armenian constitution recognized the Armenian SSR as it predecessor state.

During the investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission ( IPCC ) into the wrongful shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell Tube station on 22 July 2005, Paddick stated that a member of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sir Ian Blair's private office team had believed the wrong man had been targeted just six hours after the shooting.

In verbal and written statements to the Independent Police Complaints Commission ( IPCC ) on their investigations into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, he had stated that a member of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sir Ian Blair's private office team believed the wrong man had been targeted just six hours after the shooting.

On 25 July 2006, the Independent Police Complaints Commission ( IPCC ) announced that it had asked the Metropolitan Police to look into alleged claims of police corruption that may have helped hide the killers of Lawrence.

Complaints again flooded in to Congress, but the damage had already been done, and the last silver dollars held by the United States Treasury were gone.

After investigation, the Press Complaints Commission ruled that the payment was justified and in the public interest because Martin " had a unique insight into an issue of great public concern ".

Complaints that the proprietors had not done enough to protect the colonists against Indians in the Yamasee War, and against the attacks of the neighboring Spanish in Queen Anne's War, convinced many in South Carolina of the necessity of ending proprietary rule.

During the investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission ( IPCC ) into the wrongful shooting, one of his Deputy Assistant Commissioners Brian Paddick stated that a member of Blair's private office team had believed the wrong man had been targeted just six hours after the shooting.

Complaints had gone unheeded and people finally took to the streets in protest.

Complaints about the toll led to the 1879 construction of the St. Elmo Turnpike, which had an easier grade and a lower toll ( the St. Elmo turnpike was paved and renamed the Adolphus S. Ochs Highway in the late 1920s ).