Supporting creatives with advice on content, editorial ethics & crisis management

We advise across all genres, working with filmmakers, producers, broadcasters and streamers

OUR SERVICES

From the development phase through to transmission, as well as providing stand-alone content reviews, or ad-hoc advice as necessary, we tailor the way we work to the needs of your production.

CONTENT ADVICE

  • Legal advice including defamation, contempt, privacy, confidence, copyright (including fair dealing) and the criminal law

  • Specialist legal advice including reporting family proceedings, the Terrorism Act, and the Official Secrets Act

  • Legal production protocols including best practice legal and editorial handbooks.

  • UK Errors & Omission insurance review and opinion letters

  • Protection of sources and whistleblowers.

  • Production and disclosure orders

  • Specialist advice on undercover investigations, filming in hostile environments, filming with criminals and factual based dramas

  • Working with foreign counsel

  • Media law training

EDITORIAL ETHICS

  • Advice on editorial ethics

  • Advice on Ofcom regulatory compliance

  • Advising on entertainment set-ups and live recordings

  • Compliance production protocols

  • Advice on duty of care protocols and protecting vulnerable contributors including filming with children

  • Editorial ethics & compliance training

CRISIS MANAGEMENT

  • Press controversies

  • Kidnap & ransom, arrest, and detention of journalists

  • Litigation & regulatory cases

  • Social media attacks

  • Police enquiries and investigations

  • Data loss & hacking

  • Public Inquiries calls for evidence

Contact:

info@creatorscounsel.media

JL Advisors Limited

t/a Creators Counsel

John Eccles House,

Robert Robinson Avenue,

Oxford, OX4 4GP