Have you ever stopped and questioned whether the output of BBC news and current affairs is as balanced as it could be?

Have you found yourself screaming at the Today programme, switching off Question Time, or getting angry listening to Any Questions? You are not alone.

Do you ever find yourself questioning its impartiality and how the BBC measures that?

Everyone has his or her own sense of what impartial means and yet the BBC uses highly unscientific opinion polling to measure it. Our contention is that this kind of quantitative research takes no account of context, meaning, tone or even spokesperson. We're taking legal action and need your support. Please contribute now and share this page with your friends, family and on social media.





Our case

We are a group of private individuals bringing a case for judicial review of the way the BBC measures impartiality. It is our contention that the current methodology – based as it is on opinion polling – is fatally flawed.

Our argument is based on the fact that we believe that opinion polling is not a suitable mechanism to determine whether in fact the BBC is impartial.





What are we trying to achieve?

As concerned citizens we believe that there is a strong argument that the BBC is in breach of its obligations under its Charter and Framework Agreement.

The BBC is duty bound to assess its own performance, and this by definition means that there has to be a far more structured approach to assessing impartiality based on objectively ascertainable facts, not asking others how they think the BBC is doing.

We are therefore raising money for a judicial review process; to help us challenge the way the BBC itself measures its own levels of impartiality.

We believe that the only way the BBC can be seen to be impartial is to have an independent, objective system of measurement - not one that the BBC runs against itself. Then and only then can it really be called impartial.





How much are we raising and why?

We have instructed McCarthy Denning, a specialist legal firm with a wealth of experience, to fight our case.

To do so we need to raise £30,000 to cover our legal fees in a case that we know the BBC will fight, supported by the substantial resources it has at its disposal.





What is the next step in the case?

We firmly believe that there is a strong claim based on an apparent failure of the BBC, in breach of its Charter and Framework Agreement, to put in place a system of measurement that can assess the performance of the broadcaster as regards its impartiality.

We need to prepare and issue proceedings and get permission to bring the case from the Court. This initial round of funding is to get that permission so that we can proceed to a Judicial Review of BBC conduct.