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Comparative Advertising and English Law: Is Your Campaign Compliant?
Comparative advertising is a legitimate and widely used commercial tool. Telling customers your products or services are cheaper, faster, or better than a competitor’s is not unlawful, but only if

EU’s New Guarantee Notices: What Changes in September 2026 for B2C Sellers
From 27 September 2026, businesses selling goods to consumers in the EU will need to display two new standardised information tools at the point of sale: a mandatory legal guarantee

CJEU Confirms Dual Liability for Misleading Food Labelling: What Food Businesses Need to Know
On 30 April 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its judgment in Lidl Italia Srl v Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (Case C‑301/25), confirming

CMA moves against unfair cancellation charges
When did you last review your standard terms and conditions? If you can’t remember, now is the time. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has made unfair contract terms a

Warranties in software contracts: what they actually mean and why they matter
Warranties are the backbone of any software contract. Yet in many deals, they get buried in boilerplate or swapped away without proper thought. Here is a clear-eyed look at how

Who’s liable now? How the EU’s New Product Liability Directive expands the net
For decades, product liability in the EU centred on a relatively straightforward question: did the manufacturer put a defective product on the market? That framework served consumers well in an