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Duncan Grehan and Conor Griffin are experienced in issues
of advertising practice, marketing and sales promotion law.
Duncan Grehan & Partners provide clearance advice on
advertising copy, passing off, trademark infringement, competitions,
promotions, lotteries and transactions and documentation associated
with the industry, agencies and advertisers. We advise on
the Irish self-regulatory regime controlling advertising standards
as well as the statutory and common law control.
We are the member for Ireland of the Global
Advertising Lawyers' Alliance (GALA). This is a global
network of lawyers which have specialist practical knowledge
in advertising, marketing and related laws. There are more
than fifty countries in the network. We meet once a year and
our local grouping which covers Europe, the Middle East and
Africa also meets once yearly.
Additionally, EMA-GALA is a development of the European
Advertising Lawyers' Association (EALA) with which it
has merged. This firm was a member for Ireland for EALA from
its formation in 1989 until its merger with GALA in 2005.
Duncan Grehan has lectured on Sponsorship
Law and other subjects at conferences organised by the
Association of
Advertisers in Ireland (AAI)
In November 2004 he presented a paper on the new BCI
Children's Advertising Code in Ireland to over 60 members
of the Irish Business Employers Confederation (IBEC), representatives
from the national television stations, representatives of
the advertising industry and advertising agencies, the AAI
and the IAPI.
In October 2004 Conor Griffin presented lectures at a seminar
jointly sponsored by GALA and the AAI on Sales Promotion Law
in Ireland and Children's Advertising in Ireland to the Institute
of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland (IAPI) and the AAI
together with representatives of the advertising industry
and advertising agencies in Ireland. Click
here to request further information on the papers from
any of these seminars or go to Latest
News to view a summary of the BCI Code on Children's Advertising.
In March 2000 Duncan Grehan presented a paper outlining the
Irish, UK and European Union Regulation of television sponsorship
to a conference dealing with television advertising organised
by ERA (Europäische Rechtsakademie) at Trier, Germany.
The text of his paper deals with the international regulation
of sponsorship in Europe and its regulation at national level
in Ireland and in the United Kingdom, both by way of statutory
regulation and self-regulation, and finally it sets out conclusions.
Click here to find the text.
Duncan has contributed to some of the leading publications
in this area:
1. He has written a chapter entitled "The Regulatory
Environment for Advertising in Ireland" in the leading
Irish textbook on the subject, "Marketing Communications
in Ireland", Meenaghan/O'Sullivan (Ed), 1995, Oak Tree
Press.
2. He contributed the chapter on Ireland in the leading
textbook "Advertising Law in Europe and North-America",
Maxeiner/Schotthöfer (Ed.) 1992, Kluwer Law; 2nd ed.
1999
3. He wrote the chapter reporting the Irish law position
in the pioneering German language textbook "Handbuch
des Werberechts in den EG-Staten". Schotthöfer (Hrsg.)
1991 (Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt KG), a revised second edition
of which was published in 1997.
EUROPEAN AND WORLD NEWS
For up-to-date developments throughout Europe click on to
our associate site within the European Advertising Lawyers
Association (EALA) whose details are above. For world developments,
click on to the website of the Global Advertising Lawyers
Alliance (GALA) whose details are also above. Duncan Grehan
& Partners is the member for Ireland of EALA and of GALA.
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