The Lawmark team are very experienced professionals with very many years involvement with the law and with the marketing world.

Dr Richard Lawson LLM PhD
Richard obtained the degrees of LLB and LLM at Leeds University and obtained his PhD at the Australian National University, Canberra. He then taught law at the Universities of Auckland and Southampton.
He has written books on Sales Promotion Law; Advertising Law (in both the UK and New Zealand); Advertising and Labelling Law in the EEC; Consumer Credit; Unfair Contract Terms; and has co-authored books on Commercial Contracts and Business law. He is also responsible for the volumes on Consumer Credit; Consumer Protection; and Financial Services in the Atkins Court Form series.

Philip Circus MA MPhil DCA FIPM
Philip has been closely associated with the legal side of the marketing world for over 30 years. Educated at the Universities of London and Southampton, and the College of Law, he was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1975.
Philip Circus also holds the Diploma in Consumer Affairs from the Trading Standards Institute - for which he won the Joe Routledge prize - and he also holds a Diploma in European Community Law from King's College, London. His book 'Sales Promotion and Direct Marketing Law - A Practical Guide' is now in its 5th edition.

If you are seeking advice on any form of advertising or sales promotion, whether in the UK or elsewhere, you should contact one of the team members listed above.

Geoffrey Daw BA LLM
Geoff was educated at The City of London Business School and Trinity Hall Cambridge. He has broad experience in consumer, commercial and company law matters and has advised small, medium and large companies including sole traders, owner managed businesses and PLC’s. Geoff has also consolidated his experience in the mail order business and is the sole legal adviser to the National Newspapers’ Safe Home Ordering Protection Scheme, better known as “SHOPS”.

His experience means he can add another dimension by providing the necessary ancillary advice in related business matters such as: