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In summary: We recently wrote about the UK Government’s wide-ranging consultation on reforming the UK consumer product safety framework (see here). We highlighted that, as part of that consultation –...
Author(s): Harriet Hanks, Andrew Austin, Emma Franck-Gwinnell
The UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) recently issued its first “disclosure notice” and, on the same day, updated its guidance on UK financial sanctions enforcement. In this blog...
Author(s): Jonathan Kelly, Simon Orton, Rebecca Freedman
Over the course of the last months, the Russian government has ramped up its “countermeasures” intended to counteract the effect of sanctions imposed by Western governments. Among these countermeasure...
Author(s): Lukas Pomaroli, Dr. Stephan Denk, Stephanie Brown Cripps, Daniel Gruenwald
Changes to Nigeria’s Arbitration Regime Nigeria’s Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1988 (the "1988 Act") has been repealed and replaced by the Arbitration and Mediation Act 2023 (the “2023 Act”). This...
Author(s): Jodie Reindorf, Kim Rosenberg, Arthur Ddamulira
The Law Commission of England and Wales has now published its “Review of the Arbitration Act 1996” report (the Report), setting out its final recommendations for reforms to the Arbitration Act 1996 (t...
Author(s): Oliver Marsden, Ashley Jones, Joshua Kelly, Sara Dube
The European Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) – which is at the heart of the EU’s effort to address critical raw materials strategic dependencies and create resilient, and sufficiently diversified va...
Author(s): Eric Leikin, Samantha Tirthdas, Kieran Watkins
The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has recently announced significant changes to the mandatory reimbursement regime for Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud proposed for implementation by 2 April 2024...
Author(s): Laura Feldman, Piers Reynolds, Claudia Carroll
“Greenwashing” is a clear buzzword in the UK and EU. Greenwashing is the use of false, misleading, or unsubstantiated claims about the environmental friendliness of products, services, or practices. T...
Author(s): Nicola Fish, Lutz Riede, Alexandra Morgan