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  • Guest Blog: The U.K. Pricing Practices Guidelines Are Now in Force – Are You Compliant?

    We wanted to alert retail readers to these developments in price advertising laws in the United Kingdom from our friends at Lewis Silkin. Late last year new U.K. Pricing Practices Guidelines were published by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, replacing the long standing guidelines which retailers and advertisers had been following for many years. The...

  • Keep Calm and Carry On: Data Protection Post Brexit

    Brexit is likely to cause years of future uncertainty around data protection, including the legal mechanisms for data transfer to countries outside of the United Kingdom (“U.K.”). In the short term, there will be little to no impact on existing data transfer solutions implemented by companies that rely on the U.K. as an entry point into...

  • ASA v ECJ: Is a misleading advertising claim still misleading if you’ve undertaken due diligence?

    Editor’s Note: As promised, here is an update on ASA Developments from our friends at Lewis Silkin LLP. We were very interested in this case development from the UK around the issue of whether good faith reliance on a third party’s representations is sufficient due diligence to support claims. Below you will find an alert...

  • Twitter “Advertising” Disclosures An Issue In The UK As Well

    There has been a great deal of discussion in the US about the need for, and manner of, disclosure in tweets by celebrities and others that are paid for in some fashion by advertisers.  Not surprisingly, the British are wrestling with the same issue as evidenced by the discussion below of a recent decision by the Advertising...

  • UK Self-Regulatory Body Holds That Exclusions Should Be More Prominent

    Editors’ Note: In the UK the advertising industry is a self-regulating industry, the regulatory body for which is the Advertising Standards Authority (the “ASA” ). The ASA adjudicates complaints that are brought against advertisers on the basis of the Code of Advertising Practice (the “CAP” code). Challenges on the basis of the code can be...

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