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With immediate and worldwide effect, Facebook recently announced a new policy governing all those conducting prize promotions on its site. Brian Heidelberger, partner in Winston & Strawn Chicago, and Monique…

Smooth Radio Northwest ran a weekly phone-in competition during May 2009 with a grand prize of an “all-inclusive” Pacific island holiday. But who had to pay the £400 airport taxes?…

…but would a ban be an unwarranted and even possibly illegal constraint on a practice that seems to have been given official sanction in a “maximum harmonisation” Directive? Paul Taylor…

After controversy over whether a gambling licence was needed, house owners the Wilshaws who offered their home as the prize in a pay to enter competition, have drawn the successful…

“Buy one, get one free” promotions are thankfully still legal in the UK despite premature reports of their demise when the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 were introduced…