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

INDUSTRY TRAINING

We have partnered with the Grierson Trust and their prestigious DocLab programme, to provide training & support to their new entrants’ scheme and specialist courses for more experienced professionals working in documentary and factual television. The training and mentoring schemes are run in partnership with Netflix, Prime Video Pathway and leading independent production companies.

This is part of our ongoing commitment to support industry training programmes including our work with ScreenSkills & Erich Pommer Institut, and under-represented filmmakers.

Contact:

info@creatorscounsel.media

JL Advisors Limited

t/a Creators Counsel

John Eccles House,

Robert Robinson Avenue,

Oxford, OX4 4GP