Introduction
1.These proceedings stem from an advertisement carried on London buses in November 2004. It featured a family strolling along a beach, boats beneath the Crusader/Venetian fortress at Kyrenia and the ruined Augustinian abbey of Bellapais, all in Northern Cyprus. The advertisement bore the strapline “pure Mediterranean … North Cyprus … A sanctuary of unspoilt beauty” and the website address of the advertiser was given
- MR JUSTICE NEWMAN
- Introduction
- www.go-northcyprus.com
- April 2005
- The hearing
- Content and meaning of the advertisement
- The nature and extent of the ban
- The standing of the claimants
- The standing of an unrecognised state
- The second claimant
- The reasons for the ban
- February 2005
- Paragraph 7.1(d) and (k) of the Advertising Policy
- Decision letter of 13
- Article 10 ECHR
- Prescribed by law
- Legitimate Aim
- Necessary in a democratic society
- Procedural Unfairness