7/24/2024 10:44:02 AM CMA Secures Undertakings from Wowcher in Dark Patterns Investigation By Mark Dewar Sophie Lessar Kit Lee On 19 July 2024, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that Wowcher, an e-commerce site, has agreed to revise its online...
5/21/2024 9:58:42 AM Should you Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth: The Rise of Return less Refunds in Retail and How it Aligns with Consumer Rights. By Mark Dewar Kit Lee As Covid-19 precipitated an e-commerce boom, the largely hidden truth of ‘returnless refunds’ is gradually emerging from obscurity....
1/30/2024 10:47:47 AM Government's latest consultation continues the post-Brexit shake up of UK consumer law By Kurt Davies Mark Dewar The UK Department for Business and Trade's (DBT) response to a consultation launched in September 2023 results in further proposed...
1/5/2024 11:17:56 AM Gadget guardians: enforcement date of the UK's new connected device security law looms By Kurt Davies Mark Dewar Hayley Milner Henry Kilding +1 more... Show less Businesses involved in the supply chain for UK consumer connected devices need to prepare for new legislation bearing resemblance to the...
10/3/2023 12:17:48 PM Collapse of high street retailers – re-focusing on Retention of Title (ROT) clauses By Kurt Davies Holly Pearsall Mark Dewar There's nothing like a major event to make businesses pause and dust off their standard terms and conditions – see Covid 19 and force...
7/17/2023 8:25:45 AM CTSI and ASA crack down on the ‘vegan’ tag By Kurt Davies Mark Dewar A research piece from Hampshire and Kent Scientific Services recently found that 90% of sampled vegan products contained traces of dairy...
6/29/2023 11:37:22 AM Wildfires rage as the EU pushes on with landmark ESG legislation By Kurt Davies Mark Dewar A US City is enveloped in an orange haze emanating from Canadian forest fires hundreds of miles to the North. Shows in the Theatre...
6/20/2023 11:11:07 AM Multi-jurisdictional contracting: pitfalls & trends By Mark Dewar In the dynamic global business landscape of consumer goods, it is not unusual for goods to be designed in one legal jurisdiction,...