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A recent “Espresso Briefing” held by leading UK word of mouth marketing industry body WOM UK focused on the impact on the industry of the new Consumer Protection from Unfair…

New unfair trading regulations aim to harmonise the existing law by repealing “old” unfair trading legislation. James Baker bids farewell to the laws that will meet their maker on 26th…

Key Brussels ad control measure Directive 2005/29/EC “concerning unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices in the internal market” was due in force by 12th December 2007. How many EU countries have still…

To protect vulnerable UK citizens, the UK’s Office of Fair Trading pursued Best Sales of Holland in the Breda courts over allegedly misleading prize draw mailings. But were UK punters…

In its continuing consultations on the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, the DTI has pondered copying Germany and allowing competitors to sue each other for breaches of consumer protection laws. What…

Just as a US court halted a class action against allegedly misleading Listerine ads, HM Government consults on a plan to allow consumer class actions in the UK against delinquent…

The OFT recently published the results of a trading standards ‘advertising sweep’ monitoring compliance with the Consumer Credit (Advertisements) Regulations 2004.   Topic: The Consumer Credit Act (Advertisements) Regulations 2004 Who: The Office…