To broadcasters worried by some recent decisions whether Ofcom gives sufficient weight to freedom of expression (especially those who might...
Employment
The Employment Lawyers Association (ELA), whose remit is to support the work of UK employment lawyers, publish regular updates and...
In his latest blog post, TV and Radio compliance consultant Trevor Barnes asserts that a fascinating decision by Ofcom on October...
Ofcom’s latest Broadcast Bulletin (No.362) offers a timely reminder to broadcasters in the form of two Code breach decisions against Channel...
Tech, IP and Digital Rights
Head of IP, Maninder Gill I have just been asked to comment by a trade magazine on yet another entrepreneur...
The due care of young people when making programmes is a tricky compliance area. Rule 1.28 of the Ofcom Code...
The vexed and controversial topic of broadcast voting is back in the news again. The Sun on Sunday ran a...
Our media consultant Trevor Barnes looks at the background behind Ofcom’s tough line on hate speech in his latest blog...
Tech, IP and Digital Rights
In their latest article, Anne Rose and Simon Halberstam provide some cyber safety tips to keep in mind before, during and after...
Employment
In this edition: In Pimlico Plumbers Ltd and another v Smith, the Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by Pimlico...
Thank you to everyone who attended our seminar and we hope you found the seminar both interesting and beneficial to...
Employment
In this edition: Makbool Javaid, Partner, and Head of Employment Law, looks at 10 cases to be heard in the...
Kim Kardashian West and her husband Kanye West yesterday became parents to a baby girl, delivered via a surrogate. “Kanye...
Real Estate
In the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, bad residential mortgages were agglomerated, packaged, rubber-stamped with a higher security rating than was...
Tech, IP and Digital Rights
Maninder Gill (Head Partner) and Anne Rose (Associate) of Simons Muirhead & Burton LLP’s (SM&B) Retail and Intellectual Property team...
Family
Theresa May is currently negotiating what the UK should pay to Brussels on its divorce from the EU. There could...
Media Content and Disputes
The formal announcement of Ofcom’s new chairman, Lord Terry Burns, has inevitably led to speculation about what difference the arrival...
Tech, IP and Digital Rights
What is crypto? What is blockchain? What is Bitcoin? As Wittgenstein might have put it, many of these terms are...
Media Content and Disputes
Ofcom’s Broadcast Bulletin of 4 December 2017 contains decisions about the 9pm watershed (explaining why showing a couple having sex...
Media Content and Disputes
Our Consultant, former Ofcom broadcasting standards executive and Legal Director Trevor Barnes, publishes every month a compliance tip for TV...
