‘An advert for the weight loss programme LighterLife featuring former Coronation Street and Loose Women star Denise Welch has been banned after the actor lost weight more quickly than regulations deem to be safe.’
The Guardian, 3rd December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The UK’s advertising watchdog has told companies that they must be “up front and clear” with audiences when products are promoted online, such as in video blogs (vlogs).’
OUT-LAW.com, 1st December 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘If you’ve seen an advert in the last few years warning you to submit your tax return on time, telling you not to drink and drive, or asking you to consider joining the armed forces, chances are that the company responsible was Group M UK Limited. That company has been at the heart of an important recent case concerning the test for lifting suspensions of contracts in public procurement challenges.’
Hardwicke Chambers, 21st November 2014
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
‘Online retailing is growing fast. Research suggests that it makes up over 12% of UK retail sales, with the US and Germany close behind. Many of the advertising and promotional techniques used in e-commerce are necessarily different from those deployed in more traditional sales methods. One of the techniques currently popular is the use of keyword advertising such as Google’s AdWords.’
Technology Law Update, 12th November 2014
Source: www.technology-law-blog.co.uk
‘The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that a TV medical negligence advert for Merseyside personal injury specialists Michael W Halsall Solicitors was “likely to cause undue distress to pregnant viewers”.’
Legal Futures, 12th November 2014
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
Interflora Inc and another v Marks and Spencer plc (No 5): [2014] EWCA Civ 1403; [2014] WLR (D) 473
‘On a claim for infringement of a trade mark under article 5(1)(a) of Council Directive 89/104/EEC through keyword advertising the onus of proof lay on the trade mark proprietor to establish that the advertisement complained of did not enable normally informed and reasonably attentive Internet users, or enabled them only with difficulty, to ascertain whether the goods or services referred to by the advertisement originated from the trade mark proprietor or an undertaking economically connected to it or, on the contrary, originated from a third party.’
WLR Daily, 5th November 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Smoking cigarettes in adverts was banned in 1965, but now it is back.’
Daily Telegraph, 10th November 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The newspaper advert, which offered a date with a Page 3 model as a prize, has been criticised by the Advertising Standards Authority.’
Daily Telegraph, 5th November 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Organisations which provide or advertise remote gambling facilities in Great Britain must now be licensed by the Gambling Commission regardless of where those organisations are based in the world, under new rules that come into force tomorrow [1 November].’
OUT-LAW.com, 31st October 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Lena Ahad explains how to market legal services more effectively in a digital world.’
New Law Journal, 23rd October 2014
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
‘A legal challenge against UK government plans to reform remote gambling regulation and licensing in Great Britain has failed.’
OUT-LAW.com, 10th October 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘E-cigarette advertisers will be allowed to show their products on television from next month, under codes announced on Thursday.’
The Guardian, 9th October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a TV advert by payday lender Wonga, after a complaint by a charity.’
BBC News, 8th October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The advertising watchdog has banned three “copycat” websites masquerading as government channels for health insurance cards, passports and birth certificates, leaving consumers thousands of pounds out of pocket.’
The Guardian, 17th September 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Three of the four big high street bookmakers have signed up to a new voluntary watchdog in the hope of preempting a raft of tough statutory measures that threaten the prevalence of betting shops, high-speed roulette machines and aggressive punter-recruitment adverts promising “free money”.’
The Guardian, 15th September 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Financial services companies have been warned to review their use of online keyword advertising after the City regulator said it can lead to financial promotions being deemed to be misleading.’
OUT-LAW.com, 13th August 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Tough new rules on drink-driving are expected to be proposed to Parliament on Monday that would bring the UK in line with Europe on the issue.’
The Independent, 10th August 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Complaints over an advert showing Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue and a bikini-clad woman have been upheld by the advertising watchdog.’
BBC News, 6th August 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A solicitor involved in a boiler-room scam to push financial products to clients has been suspended from practice for 18 months.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 17th July 2014
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A district council has lost a judicial review challenge over the Communities Secretary’s decision to claw back almost £160,000 in payments made from the European Regional Development Fund.’
Local Government Lawyer, 7th July 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
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