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If you're advertising or marketing, including direct marketing, you must be accurate and honest and follow the advertising codes of practice

• Overview

  All marketing and advertising must be: an accurate description of the…

• Regulations that affect advertising

  Advertising to consumers The rules on unfair commercial practices in the…

• Advertising codes of practice

  There are 2 advertising codes of practice that describe how businesses…

• Describing your product

  You must describe your product accurately. This means if you make a claim…

• Direct marketing

  You must check if customers want to be contacted by fax, phone, post or…

The Independent Television Commission (ITC) licensed and regulated commercial television services in the United Kingdom (except S4C in Wales) between 1 January 1991 and 28 December 2003.

• Updated: 15 April 2021

This guide provides information about being arrested in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and what conditions are like in prison there.

• Updated: 20 October 2023

Data showing revenues for the commercial TV sector in the UK

• Updated: 24 June 2021

You should get legal advice before applying for intellectual property. Your chances of obtaining intellectual property are much greater if you use an attorney.

• Updated: 26 November 2025

Fees, expenses, contractual terms and administrative procedures for panel counsel, clerks and their chambers.

• Updated: 21 February 2025

Our short film showcases the breadth of work government lawyers and legal trainees are involved

• Updated: 18 January 2019

Get the right permissions to show a film or TV show in public.

These undertakings require the BBC not to give preference to advertising its own magazines on BBC1 and BBC2.

• Updated: 6 August 1992

How to stop being an attorney under a lasting power of attorney (LPA).