5/7/2025 8:47:07 AM UK advertising regulator’s annual review indicates its priorities for 2025 By Andrew Austin Rachel Duffy Charlie Fisher Daniaal Azam +1 more... Show less The UK’s advertising regulator, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), recently published its 2024 Annual Report (here). This...
5/7/2025 8:18:51 AM FCA pauses the extension of SDR to portfolio management By Elisabeth Overland Emily Smith Daniel Tichbi On 30 April 2025, the FCA announced that it has paused its plans to extend the Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and...
4/7/2025 3:40:00 PM Consumer protection provisions of the UK DMCCA and the CMA’s new enforcement powers are now in force By Andrew Austin Cat Greenwood-Smith Kate Collister Rachel Duffy Honor May Joshua Hare +3 more... Show less The majority of the consumer protection provisions of the landmark Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (the DMCCA) went live...
3/28/2025 2:54:18 PM The FCA’s Consumer Duty rule review: a spring clean, but no overhaul By Michael Raffan Christopher Bernard Daniel Tichbi One oft-criticised feature of the UK financial services regime is the complexity and the volume of the FCA’s handbook of rules and...
3/20/2025 12:10:21 PM The CMA announces enforcement priorities with weeks to go before the DMCCA’s new consumer regime comes into force By Andrew Austin Cat Greenwood-Smith Kate Collister Honor May +1 more... Show less With just over two weeks to go until most of the Digital Markets Competition and Consumers Act 2024’s (DMCCA) consumer protection...
3/6/2025 11:49:11 AM UK advertising regulator hones in on “online choice architecture” and “dark patterns” By Andrew Austin Rachel Duffy Honor May On 27 February 2025, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) published an overview of how advertising involving “dark patterns” is...
2/6/2025 1:03:47 PM The new EU General Product Safety Regulation: Implications for Sellers of Second-Hand Products By Andrew Austin Laura Knoke Lorand Bartels Anita Bell +1 more... Show less The European Union's General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR), which came into force on 13 December 2024, marks a significant shift in...
12/13/2024 8:26:17 AM New General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) set to transform the EU product compliance framework By Andrew Austin Moritz Becker Laura Knoke Harriet Hanks Anita Bell Rixa Kuhmann +3 more... Show less Today, on 13 December 2024, the new General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) comes into force, introducing modernised safety standards...
11/14/2024 3:54:40 PM English High Court decision indicates EU-wide product approvals do little to prevent product liability claims for damages By James Roberts Simon Duncombe Sanjana Canumalla James Smith Georgina Bayly +2 more... Show less Background On 14 November 2024, the High Court handed down judgment in the first substantive trial to take place in the industry-wide NOx...
10/3/2024 12:28:24 PM Next steps for UK product regulation – the new Product Regulation and Metrology Bill By Harriet Hanks Andrew Austin Ananya Maheshwari The OPSS (Office for Product Safety and Standards - the UK’s product safety regulator) proposed an overhaul of the UK’s current product...
9/18/2024 6:57:55 AM The von der Leyen II Commission’s guiding star – competitiveness in the twin transition By Natalie Pettinger Kearney Victor Garcia Lopez Léa Bareil Jimena Gonzalez +1 more... Show less How the newly unveiled structure could deliver Europe’s next 5-year political ambitions The wait, at least for now, is finally over....
7/5/2024 12:45:00 PM High Court lays down important points of principle for costs budgeting in large-scale and complex group litigation By James Roberts Simon Duncombe Rebecca Fenning Alice Goodinge Owen Jack +2 more... Show less In a judgment handed down today, the High Court has laid down a number of significant points of principle for cost management exercises...