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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.

Advertising Standards Authority

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is the independent body set up by the advertising industry to police the rules laid down in the advertising codes. Its web site includes annual reports 1997 onwards; research reports; the current editions of the British Code of Advertising, Sales Promotion and Direct Marketing (the CAP Code), and the various other codes relating to radio and television advertising; and a searchable database of recent adjudications.

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.

David Price Solicitors & Advocates

David Price Solicitors & Advocates is a London law firm specialising in media law. There is a brief guide to media law, and a monthly Media Law Newsletter containing reports and case comment, archived back to April 2000.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ofcom

Ofcom (the Office of Communications) is the regulator for the media and communications industries, 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. Information and documents on the site include the Ofcom Broadcasting Code, policy guidelines, 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.

One Brick Court

One Brick Court is a set of barristers' chambers in the Temple which specialises in defamation and media 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.

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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