Social Media in UK Law
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Social media in litigation
A high profile libel claim for defamatory statements made on Twitter provides a study on how to apply the law of defamation in the social media age and highlights risks (and opportunities) that lit...
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AIM disclosure and social media
AIM Regulation has published guidance on the interaction between social media and other forms of electronic communication (e.g. Twitter, the AIM company's website, a non-regulatory news feed) and a...
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UK: The Latest Social Media Legal Updates
In our May 30, 2012 post on the Socially Aware blog—“Should We All Be Getting the Twitter “Jitters”? Be Careful What You Say Online (Particularly in the United Kingdom)”—we considered a variety of ...
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Social Media Competitions in the UK: Play Fair
With 1.65 billion users on Facebook, 332 million users on Twitter and 400 million on Instagram, it is unsurprising that many companies are seeking to increase brand awareness and customer engagemen...
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FCA Publishes Supervisory Approach to Financial Promotions in Social Media
On August 6, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its guidance consultation on social media and customer communications (Guidance). The Guidance is intended to clarify and confirm the...
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Alert: Financial Promotions in Social Media for the UK
The FCA published its Finalised Guidance (FG15/4) on Social media and customer communications: The FCA's supervisory approach to financial promotions in social media on 13 March 2015 (Finalised Gui...
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Conduct: Vaccination social media & fitness to practice as a nurse.
With thanks to Jane Butler for drawing my attention to a UK fitness to practice committee finding in relation to Kay Allison Shemirani (available on nmc.org.uk). The case against Nurse S arose from...
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ATTENTION SOCIAL MEDIA USERS: New IFPMA and EFPIA Guidance on use of social media by industry
The international and European self-regulatory bodies for the research-based pharmaceutical industry (IFPMA, International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations and EFPIA, Eur...
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Social Media Competitions in the UK: Play Fair
With 1.65 billion users on Facebook, 332 million users on Twitter and 400 million on Instagram, it is unsurprising that many companies are seeking to increase brand awareness and customer engagemen...
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