Blackstone's Statutes Series 
Caddell & Johnson: Media Law 2eBlackstone's Statutes Series
Useful Supplementary Materials
Advertising Standards Authority Codes (www.asa.org.uk/asa/codes/) on Broadcast and non-Broadcast Advertising. They are available to read online or to download in PDF format.
Radio Advertising Standard Code
Online version:
www.asa.org.uk/asa/codes/radio_code/
PDF version: www.asa.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/41D3786B-1B9A-4C6A-B2E9-09C6C5EB928C/0/BCAP_Radio_Advertising_Standards_Code_20060703.pdf
Non-broadcast Advertising Codes
Online version:
www.asa.org.uk/asa/codes/cap_code/
PDF version: www.asa.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/A44808F1-1573-482A-A0E5-D8045943DA57/0/The_CAP_Code_Ed11_20060703.pdf
Sensitive Reporting in Coroners Courts, Discussion Paper, Ministry of Justice, 2008
In 2007 the Government dropped what was then cl.30 of the Draft Coroners Bill which entitled coroners to impose reporting restrictions where there was no public interest in reporting events which might cause great distress to relatives, particularly where children were involved. The dropping followed intense media pressure – the Discussion Paper proposes changes to the Industry self-regulatory Press Complaints Commission Code: in effect requesting the media to act in a more restrained and sensitive manner in their reporting.
www.justice.gov.uk/docs/sensitive-reporting-coroners.pdf
Conditional fee agreements in publication proceedings: success fees and after the event insurance
August 2007: Ministry of Justice provisional proposals in relation to controversial use of conditional fees (popularly known as ‘no win, no fee’ actions). The site also contains responses. The proposals have been put on ice pending a more major review of use of conditional fees generally.
www.justice.gov.uk/publications/cp1607.htm
Video Games Classification: a consultation, Department of Media Culture & Sport, 31 July 2008
The DCMS has published proposals in relation to the classification of video games and examines the current mixture of statutory and self-regulation systems both in the UK and the EU – the statutory system under the Video Recordings Act 1984 is operated by the British Board of Film Classification. The document proposes four options for possible adoption.
www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/consultations/5345.aspx
Public Consultation on Implementing the EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive, Department of Media Culture and Sport, 25 July 2008
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport has published the first consultation document of the revisions to the Broadcasting Directives 1989 & 1997 by the EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive (a consolidated version of all three directives is in the 2nd edition of the statute book). The Consultation Document focuses on three areas of implementation: firstly the concept of co-regulating video-on-demand services (so-called non-linear services which are brought within the scope of EU broadcasting regulation for the first time) - co-regulation is basically first tier industry self-regulation overseen with backstop powers by a statutory body (a UK example is the co-regulation of television and radio advertising by the self-regulatory Advertising Standards Authority and the OFCOM); secondly whether the UK should take up the option of allowing greater use of product placement (UK Government initially hostile to the notion); and thirdly the regulation of channels from outside the UK which uplink from the UK.
www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/consultations/5309.aspx
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