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New rules under Appendix Long Residence, effective from April 11, 2024, require a one-year tenure on current immigration status for ILR applications, with stricter criteria on absences and overstays. Compliance is crucial to avoid licence revocation.

It’s rare that lawyers are accused of being shy. But it often feels like the only explanation for the way in which they sabotage their chances of valuable mainstream publicity. Seminars and conferences are a perfect case in point.

UK Government publishes Online Media Literacy Strategy to empower users to make safe choices online and to support organisations to undertake media literacy activity in a more coordinated way.

The past few days have seen a number of significant indications of the new and growing importance of online advertising. In the first place, research from the Internet Advertising Bureau revealed that the money spent on UK internet advertising last year topped 10% of the total advertising spend across all media for the first time, with a figure of around GBP£2bn in total expenditure.

Everyone will recall the glamorous couple Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, more used to red carpets than courtrooms, fighting for their privacy over wedding photos sold to Hello! The couple sold exclusive rights of their wedding to OK! for £1m in order to retain control over the media and their privacy.

In previous articles placed on this web site, I have explored my interests, as a media lawyer, in the appropriate use of mediation in media disputes. In this article I seek to colour in another section of the media/mediation map by looking at the logical precursor to dispute resolution: Deal Mediation.

If you have been posting on LinkedIn recently, you have probably felt the shift in reach and engagement. Tactics that seemed effective six months ago are no longer delivering the same results.

While organised crime largely controls hard copy piracy, the general public downloads soft copy illegal content. A different approach will be needed to combat the newer threat of digital theft.

With constantly evolving and developing technology in the film industry, it has long been the position that, along with brand new releases, film-makers look to enhance and further exploit the vast library of films already released.

Most employers wrestle with how they best use technology to attract and retain staff. 2023 will see tech increasingly being used to augment, or sometimes replace, staff functions and help productivity.

Drawing on two surveys on the use of arbitration in technology, media and telecoms disputes, Susan Field, a senior associate and solicitor advocate ...

Welcome to the October edition of Mishcon Fraud Watch, prepared by the Fraud & Insolvency Group at Mishcon de Reya. It aims to provide businesses and their advisors with a snapshot of what has been happening in the world of fraud in the last month.