15 April, 2025 ASA injects an Enforcement Notice into the regulatory diet of ads for named weight-loss drugs. But will it tip the scales of compliance? By Brinsley Dresden The growing popularity of weight-loss drugs has thrown up some interesting issues. On the one hand, they seem to offer at least a partial...
07 April, 2025 Received an adverse ASA decision? The CMA might be coming for you next! By Brinsley Dresden Advertisers sometimes think that they needn't worry too much about investigations by the Advertising Standards Authority, because the ASA...
05 April, 2025 Is this the largest advertising related fine in British legal history? By Brinsley Dresden CMA Investigation Uncovers Collusion in the Automotive Industry The United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has recently...
28 March, 2025 Let us help you navigate the future of green claims in the EU By Brinsley Dresden On Tuesday 25th March, I was joined for an online chat by my friend Daniël Haije, a Partner at the Amsterdam law firm of Hoogenraad &...
18 March, 2025 Which celebrities have 'strong appeal' to the 'yoof of today' and why? New ASA research may provide some answers. By Brinsley Dresden George Bernard Shaw, the Irish playwright and inventor of the hipster beard, is credited as saying “Youth is wasted on the young.” As...
14 March, 2025 Join us for our GALA webinar: Navigating the Future of Green Claims in the EU By Brinsley Dresden Join Brinsley Dresden of Lewis Silkin (GALA UK) and Daniël Haije, of Hoogenraad & Haak (GALA Netherlands), while they discuss the latest...
22 February, 2025 EDF’s Solar Panel claim disappears behind a cloud, with no silver lining By Brinsley Dresden On 19th February 2025, the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld seven complaints against EDF Energy regarding their radio ad...
09 January, 2025 Are you not offended? No, me neither. By Brinsley Dresden “Are you not entertained?” This was the question originally asked by antipodean Thespian, Russell Crowe, in his portrayal of Maximus...
12 September, 2022 You're Invited: "Global Advertising in an Age of Crisis and Change" By Jeff Greenbaum The Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance will be holding its annual global advertising law conference on Thursday, October 13, 2022, in...
04 March, 2022 You're Invited: "Global Environmental Marketing Claims" Webinar By Jeff Greenbaum On Tuesday, March 29, 2022, the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance will be sponsoring a webinar on "Global Environmental Marketing...
24 January, 2022 Can Advertisers Claim That a Bottle is Made of Recycled Material if the Cap Is Not? It Depends on Who You Ask . . . By Jeff Greenbaum A recent decision from the Advertising Standards Authority in the United Kingdom held that a "100% recycled" claim that appeared in...
27 May, 2021 You're Invited: "Hot Topics in Global Automotive Advertising Law" By Jeff Greenbaum In June, the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance is hosting a series of webinars on the laws governing the advertising of automobiles...
24 November, 2020 GALA Webinar: EMEA Advertising Law Year in Review By Dušan Nitschneider Allow me to invite you to join a Webinar "EMEA Advertising Law Year in Review," hosted by the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA)...