Bloggers and other people using social media to boost products should be...
Businesses that use blogs, social networking sites and other social media to boost their products without users realising should be pulled up for breaching the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, so...
View ArticleDoes ECJ ruling on broad extent of Unfair Commercial Practices Directive? –...
The European Union introduced the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, which the UK brought into law through the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations. The Directive aims to stop...
View ArticlePrizes linked with product purchase allowed by ECJ – Mediapring v...
The European Court of Justice has ruled that Austrian legislation which prevents the offering of a prize as a combination with a product purchase is incompatible with the Unfair Commercial Practices...
View ArticleOFT takes action against bait pricing by collective purchasing website
The Office of Fair Trading has obtained written undertakings (or promises) from a website called Groupola, which used tactics that the OFT claimed were a breach of the Consumer Protection from Unfair...
View ArticleECJ consider “invitations to purchase” very widely and rules that it is an...
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled as to the meaning of an ‘invitation to purchase’ under Article 2(i) of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (the Directive) and has clarified what...
View ArticleMinimum 12- to 36 month gym memberships were unfair – OFT v Ashbourne...
The Office of Fair Trading has successfully obtained an injunction against someone who recruited new members for their gym and health club clients. In the standard agreements that X advised their...
View ArticleLaw Commission consults on new law to give consumers remedies for misleading...
The Law Commission is consulting over new laws to better protect consumers against misleading selling. The Government implemented the European Union’s Unfair Commercial Practices Directive 2005 with...
View ArticleECJ referral over interpretation of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive...
The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (the Regulations) implement the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive in the UK. The Regulations prohibit commercial practices which treat...
View ArticleGovernment proposes new single consolidated Consumer Bill of Rights
UK consumer laws will be merged into a single consolidated law, according to Government proposals. Currently, there are 12 statutes and Regulations, some of which overlap. The UK will also need to...
View ArticleSingle incorrect information can amount to “misleading commercial practice”
Nemzeti v UPC, European Court of Justice The European Court of Justice has confirmed that a single act in respect of a single consumer can amount to an unfair commercial practice contrary to the Unfair...
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