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EU mandarins are mulling a new Toy Safety Directive which could impose stricter controls on the packaging, marketing and sale of toys within the EU. Frances Vickery considers the implications.…

For those who have only just digested new, EU-inspired “unfair commercial practices” regulations, another chunky consumer protection offering is being served up by EC mandarins. They now propose compressing four…

Wiltshire County Council’s Trading Standards Department, with assistance from the OFT, bring the first case under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008. This is the first Order to…

Soon after key changes to UK consumer protection laws under new “unfair commercial practices” regulations, HM Govt is now looking at radical changes to how they should be enforced. James…

Just as the UK ad community was getting to grips with the major changes wrought by the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations, the BERR has announced, wait for it,…

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…