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Oxford, London

Jo Farmer

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Media, brands and technology.

Position

Partner, media, brands and technology department. Specialises in non-contentious marketing services law, including intellectual property law, regulatory and contractual issues. Helped to negotiate and draft the latest standard form contracts for the advertising industry, which were agreed by ISBA, the IPA, MCCA and CIPS. A particular niche is new media. Clients include brand owners (Bacardi Global Brands, Estee Lauder) and advertising agencies (BBH, Wieden + Kennedy).

Career

Trained Edge Ellison (now Hammonds) 1997-99; qualified 1999; assistant Hammonds 1999-2002; associate Baker & McKenzie, Sydney (practising Australian law) 2003; associate Lewis Silkin 2004-08; partner Lewis Silkin 2008. Author of chapters on advertising to children and cosmetics advertising in ‘Advertising Law’. Speaks regularly at conferences on advertising and new media

Education

Longfield School, Darlington; Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College, Darlington; Nottingham University (1996 LLB Hons 2:1); Nottingham Trent University (1997 LPC – Distinction).

Practice Areas

Advertising and marketing (including sponsorship); Media and entertainment

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Negotiating the minefield of administrative decisions

There are many situations where decisions are made by organisations such as local authorities (during the tendering process, the grant of contracts or planning decisions, for example) or professional or disciplinary bodies where a party may wish to challenge the outcome. A party with an interest in a decision may feel aggrieved by the outcome due to what appears to be a conflict of interest by those making the decision, or the appearance of bias. This may have serious consequences for in-house lawyers acting for organisations subject to such decisions, and therefore this briefing is intended to provide a general overview of the areas to consider. Challenging judicial or quasi-judicial decisions where there is a conflict of interest was considered by James Levy in a previous briefing (IHL146, p37-40).

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In Le Temps, the daily newspaper of reference of Western Switzerland, Yves de Coulon analyses the latest developments in the field of planning and zoning: Weber Initiative, Landscape Initiative, recent modifications of the Federal Law on planning and zoning, what consequences on the cantons' autonomy in the area of planning and zoning?

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In Harrow LBC v Ayiku [2012] EWHC 1200 (Admin) Sales J held that the word “or” in the Council Tax (Exempt Dwellings) Order 1992, art 3 Class N, had a disjunctive meaning, therefore it was sufficient for the non-British spouse of a foreign student to satisfy one or other of the two conditions, namely being prevented from taking paid employment or being prevented from claiming benefits, in order to qualify as a “relevant person” who was exempted from liability to pay council tax.

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