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Holding Redlich
Recent cases demonstrate the importance of ensuring that businesses do not mislead consumers. Tips on how to comply with the ACL.
LegalVision
Key elements to include in your contracts when starting an NDIS business.
Holman Webb
Issues with misleading advertising on social media have raised concerns about possible breaches of the ACL.
Canada
Gowling WLG
Canada's Consumer-Driven Banking Framework (Framework) was released alongside the 2024 federal budget, and serves as an update to the previously released 2023 Fall Economic Statement...
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
On March 27, 2024, the Court of Appeal for Ontario released its much awaited decision in Palmer v. Teva. The decision sends a clear signal that claims based on weak science...
China
Beijing East IP Law Firm
Recently, the Palace Museum discovered that a Sichuan liquor company and a Beijing trading company used the words "Supervised by the Palace Museum"...
India
Agama Law Associates
The real-estate sector has boomed in the past few years, however, delays in construction and completion of projects have been the norm, leaving the homebuyer in the lurch.
Naik Naik & Company
On March 26, 2024, the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA), and the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) released a joint press release with the shared mission under the ASCI...
Dhir & Dhir Associates
In the month of December 2022, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance proposed the introduction of a new ex-ante legislation known as the Digital Competition Act (DCA).
Kroll HK Ltd
The plant-based foods sector in the UK witnessed significant growth in recent years, driven by rising consumer concerns around health and sustainability.
Nigeria
Solola & Akpana
The Restrictive and Trade Practices Regulation, 2022 was established to provide a regulatory framework for the implementation of Part VIII and some aspects of Part XIV of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act, 2018 ...
Turkey
Balcioglu Selçuk Ardiyok Keki Attorney Partnership
Additionally, it may be considered that the Regulation has the potential to disrupt the future development of the electric vehicle market in Turkey.
UK
Fieldfisher
The UK's consumer connected product security regime comes into effect a week on Monday (29 April 2024).
WTW
As the FCA and many market commentators have been keen to stress, the passing of the July 2023 deadline to comply with Consumer Duty rules (for new and open products)...
Herbert Smith Freehills
Over the Easter weekend, it has been reported that a data compression library called XZ Utils contained a sophisticated backdoor (vulnerability CVE-2024-3094) which enabled remote code execution.
Ukraine
Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA)
According to Article 8 of the Ukrainian Advertising Law, it is expressly forbidden to misleading use or imitate the State Flag of Ukraine in advertising.
United Arab Emirates
Awatif Mohammad Shoqi Advocates & Legal Consultancy
The Ministry of Economy in the UAE has recently introduced a comprehensive list of violations under Cabinet Decision No. 66/2023 concerning the Executive Regulation of Federal Law No. 15/2020 on Consumer Protection.
United States
Goodwin Procter LLP
Kansas has become the fourth state (and the second in 2024) to enact a law that establishes a financial services oversight regime for earned wage access services...
Arnold & Porter
On April 2, 2024, the Enforcement Division of the California Privacy Protection Agency issued its first Enforcement Advisory (No. 2024-01) (the Advisory).
Goodwin Procter LLP
The majority of the remittance transfers sent are electronic transfers of funds sent by consumers in the United States to recipients in other countries.
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