When embarking on a new project, how do you develop production protocols and best practice guidelines from the start? From the outset of a production, how can you ensure that any bumps in the road are carefully navigated?

Film and TV producers should be aware of pre- and post-broadcast media law and regulatory issues, including privacy and defamation, standards, fairness and commercial content, as well as sensitive editorial ethics and duty of care issues.

This webinar with experienced media lawyer Sara Vandore-Mackay will provide advice and guidance on all aspects related to legal and compliance issues in production, including:

Privacy and fairness (including right to replies and secret filming)
Defamation copyright and fair dealing
Duty of care (including children and vulnerable contributors)
Commercial references
Standards / watershed issues
Filming during the COVID-19 pandemic

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About Sara Vandore-Mackay

Sara is a highly experienced media lawyer, having advised on all aspects of media law and regulation for over 10 years. Prior to joining Reviewed & Cleared, Sara was a lawyer in the award-winning Legal & Compliance team at Channel 4 Television since 2011, providing editorial teams, broadcast and digital producers with clear, pragmatic and timely advice on pre- and post-broadcast media law and regulatory issues.

Sara works across all genres including investigative journalism and undercover filming, complex factual and documentaries, drama, entertainment, and live television, including innovative and award-winning programmes such as 24 Hours in Police Custody, The Undateables and Naked Attraction. She enjoys working collaboratively and creatively with producers from the outset of a production to ensure that any bumps in the road are carefully navigated.

Sara has a background in high-level litigation having qualified as a solicitor in the Commercial Litigation department of magic circle law firm Allen & Overy in 2006, working on complex commercial claims. She then moved to Claimant law firm Schillings in 2010, where Sara advised private clients, corporations and high net worth individuals on media law and regulatory issues in relation to newspaper publications and investigative broadcasts.

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