The PPA works with specialist media lawyers Reviewed & Cleared to provide an accessible and practical legal Advice Line for our members.

This service is available exclusively for PPA members and includes:

• Access to a helpline with a free of charge call back service
• Up to 15 minutes of free advice over the phone
• A central hub, accessible via email, where your queries will be answered
• Competitive hourly rates for any necessary work beyond the initial 15 minutes’ free advice
• No obligation to utilise further services
  

Reviewed & Cleared can advise in following areas:

• Defamation
• Copyright
• Employment and personnel
• Commercial and contract issues
• Competitions
• Digital rights, including podcasts and video content
• Data protection

How to get advice

Email for a call back (within 24 hours): mylegalquery@reviewedandcleared.com

Please include details of your query so the most appropriate lawyer can call you back.

About Reviewed & Cleared

Reviewed & Cleared boasts the UK’s biggest collective of specialist content lawyers. They provide the personal service you’d expect of a boutique legal firm.

Reviewed & Cleared provides legal clearance and compliance advice on all types of printed, digital, audio- and audio-visual content, advertising, commercial tie-ups, errors and omissions insurance opinions and assistance, pre-publication and pre-broadcast legal clearance advice, and production clearances. CEO Alex Wade is a writer and journalist as well as lawyer. Alex and the team who will advise the PPA all bring decades of hands-on experience for Fleet Street newspapers and national magazine publishers.

Alex Wade, CEO, Reviewed & Cleared

Alex qualified as a solicitor with Carter-Ruck in 1994 and went on to be head of legal for Northern & Shell plc. He also worked for Wiggin, Theodore Goddard and Prisma Sports & Media before, in the early 2000s, opting to combine working as a night lawyer for newspapers with being a freelance journalist.

Alex has advised almost every UK newspaper, and continues to work regularly with The Times, Sunday Times and Guardian. He works with a number of clients in book and magazine publishing, and is also an experienced TV lawyer, with credits for legal work on BBC prime time shows and many years’ work for independent production companies on documentaries, comedies, films, music and sports series.

Alex is also a professional writer. He has been short-listed by the Sports Journalists’ Association as sports feature writer of the year, worked as an editor of supplements and microsites for The Guardian, and has written three non-fiction sports books. In 2016, Alex’s first novel, Flack’s Last Shift, was published. Set on Fleet Street at a fictional newspaper, the novel was described by The Times as “Wickedly observant… this witty, pacey thriller is a portrait of newspapers at a time of mighty upheaval.”

Having worked with journalists, editors and broadcasters all his life, as both a lawyer and writer, Alex brings a quick-thinking, practical approach to content clearance, with one overriding aim: to see the story published.