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By the time you read this, you may well know who has won the UK’s 2010 General Election, but in a review, at least a third of which will presumably…

Govt pressure for more online content to be policed by the Advertising Standards Authority started after the Byron Report 2008. Now the Advertising Association suggests progress but what are the…

They’ve been nearly three years coming, but now, at a price, the brand new CAP/BCAP advertising codes have landed. Stephen Groom notes key changes and messages but queries the charge…

Before its Look Back, Face Forward marketing law forum on 9 December 2009, Osborne Clarke arranged with the “LBFF” keynote speaker, ASA ceo Guy Parker, to poll delegates on questions…

The Provision of Services Regulations 2009 will implement the EU Services Directive. A number of the new obligations created by the Regulations will apply directly to businesses supplying services, including…

Come 28 December 2009, the Provision of Services Regulations 2009 are due to come into force. Implementing the EU Services Directive 2006/123/EC, these will impose new obligations on a raft…

Rarely does a weekly clutch of ASA case reports go by that does not feature a lurid computer game or film ad that has triggered complaints. UK ad code writers…