24 Jul, 2024 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...
21 May, 2024 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....
30 Jan, 2024 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...
05 Jan, 2024 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...
03 Oct, 2023 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...
17 Jul, 2023 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...
29 Jun, 2023 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...
20 Jun, 2023 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,...