PhonepayPlus: Some Thoughts on the Ordanduu Case

Author – VICTORIA RUSSELL and OLIVER FETIVEAU, Aug 28, 2019

Those close to the UK mobile services industry will have had a close eye on the recent application for Judicial Review, made by Ordanduu GmbH, against UK phone regulator PhonepayPlus.  Having seen their application for permission knocked back on paper,

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Defamation Act – a Win for the Press?

Author – Oliver Fetiveau, Aug 28, 2019
The Press may be able to escape the financial cost of defamation, and reap the financial reward, simply by issuing an early apology.  This has serious implications for the new press regulatory body, the Independent Press Standards Organisation (“IPSO”), established this week.

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Cooke v MGN – the Costs Verdict

Authur – Oliver Fetiveau, Jul 8, 2019
On 13 August 2014 Mr Justice Bean handed down his judgment in the case of Cooke

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Birmingham and Paris: No-Go Zones

Author – Mairie de Paris.  Bof, Jul 7, 2019
By way of brief intro, Fox News, in its traditionally comical yet terrifying reportage of world events,  suggested that certain areas of Paris, and the city of Birmingham, were ‘no-go zones’ for non-muslims.  The notion of Birmingham being a no-go zone wryly tickled the twittersphere,

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FA Work Permit Reforms kick in as transfer window opens

Dated : Jul 7, 2019
After England’s early exit from the Under 21 European Championships, the familiar ‘excuse’ of too many foreign players in England was a regular soundbite in the media for a few days.  This is a knee-jerk too-easy response

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Imitation: Not Always the Best Form of Flattery

Dated : Aug 7, 2015
A little story in the Guardian set the ‘Wryly Comic’ light flashing on the M Law Media Watch Switchboard this morning. Please read the original article here. Fact yet again is stranger than fiction. It appears that German World Champion and Manchester United flagship

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TV FORMATS & COPYRIGHT: WHAT’S THE X-FACTOR?

Dated : Aug 7, 2015
The extent to which you can protect a TV format

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