5RB
5RB is a set of barristers' chambers at 5 Raymond Buildings, Gray's Inn, which specialises in media and entertainment law, sports law, and related human rights law. Site content includes full text judgments from cases involving 5RB barristers, and in-house articles.
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Advertising Standards Authority
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is the UK's independent regulator of advertising across all media. It enforces the advertising codes written by the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP). Its web site includes links to the current editions of the codes on the CAP site, a searchable database of recent adjudications, compliance reports, research reports, and recent annual reports.
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Committee of Advertising Practice
The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) is the self-regulatory body which creates, revises and enforces the various broadcast and non-broadcast advertising codes that are administered by the Advertising Standards Authority. The codes and other rules and guidance issued by the CAP may be viewed directly online or downloaded as pdf documents.
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Entertainment and Sports Law Journal
This online journal is published by the Electronic Law Journals Project at Warwick University. The coverage is from Spring 2002 onwards.
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Harbottle & Lewis
Harbottle & Lewis is a London law firm specialising in media, entertainment and sports law. The site's content includes in-house articles and regular eBulletins. Registration is required to receive the latter by email: recent issues are directly accessible on the site. Articles and eBulletins can be found under the "Latest" tab.
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Lawdit Solicitors
Lawdit Solicitors is a Southampton-based law firm specialising in trademarks, designs, patents and copyright law. The “Reading Room” section of its web site has a large article archive based on the various specialist areas including copyright, patents, domain names, media law, trademarks and data protection.
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Leveson Inquiry
Lord Justice Leveson was appointed in July 2011, following developments in the News International phone hacking scandal, to chair an inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press. Formal hearings were concluded on 24 July 2012 and the Leveson Report published 29 November 2012. Site content includes the inquiry's full terms of reference, transcripts of hearings, evidence, the chairman's rulings and key documents. Links are provided to the government's Official Documents web site from which both the full report and an executive summary are available for downloading. |
McLibel Trial
The libel trial between the McDonalds Corporation and a postman and a gardener from London became the longest running trial in English legal history, beginning in June 1994 and lasting 313 days. This section of the McSpotlight web site includes Mr Justice Bell's judgment of 19 June 1997, a selection of legal documents relating to the proceedings, witness statements, and information about the subsequent appeal. There are also news stories and press releases up to 2006 and a few legal articles. Court transcripts were available at one time but appear to have been removed.
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Michael Simkins LLP
Michael Simkins LLP is a London law firm specialising in the media, entertainment, sport and leisure sectors. Its web site has articles and "Early Warning" bulletins, going back to December 1996, outlining legal developments in media and entertainment.
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Ofcom
Ofcom (the Office of Communications) is the independent regulator and competition authority for the media and communications industries in the UK. It was created in December 2003 from a merger of the Broadcasting Standards Commission, the Independent Television Commission, Oftel, the Radio Authority and the Radio Communications Agency. Since 1 October 2011 it has also been responsible for the regulation of the UK's postal services. Information and documents on the site include consultations, codes of practice, guidance, reports, and selected material from the former sites of the defunct "legacy regulators". An Enforcement section within the "Stakeholders" area includes details of Ofcom's competition and other regulatory enforcement casework since 1996, in the Competition and Consumer Enforcement Bulletin.
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One Brick Court
One Brick Court is a set of barristers' chambers in the Temple which specialises in media and information law. Its web site includes a news section; brief notes on recent cases in which members of chambers have appeared; and a collection of articles, most of them reproduced from various journals and newspapers.
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Press Complaints Commission
The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) is an independent body through which the British press regulates itself. It deals with complaints from members of the public about the editorial content of newspapers and magazines (and their web sites). Documents on its site include the PCC Code of Practice, annual reports 1996 onwards, press releases, and a searchable database of all resolved and adjudicated cases 1996 onwards.
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