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  • Civil Claim Services Ltd

    • Upheld
    • Internet (social networking)
    • 18 October 2017

    Ads for Civil Claim Services Ltd dated 4 April 2017, seen in May 2017:

    a. A Facebook post included text which stated “The BBC, Martin Lewis and National press have all announced a PPI deadline is in place. To run a 22 year PPI check on all your finances visit www.ppisearch.co.uk ...”. The post included an imag...

  • Thomson Legal Ltd t/a Assured Legal

    • Not Upheld
    • Internet (social networking)
    • 24 May 2017

    A tweet from claims management company Assured Legal Services, seen on 3 February 2017, which said "£223.7 MILLION on compensation for PPI paid in ONE MONTH... still don't want to check? Message us today! #ppi #compensation #financialfriend." The tweet included an image with text that said "£223.7m wa...

  • Finarea SA t/a Telediscount

    • Upheld
    • Internet (on own site)
    • 11 January 2017

    The home page of www.telediscount.co.uk, an international access number service, featured a box allowing viewers to look up charges per minute to different countries. For calls to Israel, it stated “To landlines 1 pence per minute”.

  • This Is Global Ltd t/a Capital Radio

    • Not Upheld
    • Radio
    • 14 December 2016

    A radio ad for the film “Lights Out”, broadcast on 16 August at 7:25 pm on Capital Radio East Midlands, featured an introductory voice-over stating, “From the visionary filmmaker behind the Conjuring”. A child’s voice then said, “Every time I turn the lights off, there’s this woman.” A woman said “I’ve been seeing h...

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