Snapshots Winter 2024
A roundup of key legal developments for the modern commercial lawyer.
Snapshots seeks to cover everything the commercial lawyer needs to know from the previous quarter, aiming to address all the major changes affecting commercial law, from the key cases to data, digital, consumer and advertising developments.
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Data
- The UK’s new Data (Use and Access) Bill
- New Standard Contractual Clauses for data importers outside the EAA but subject to the GDPR
- ICO Statement on Generative AI Model Training
- ICO reprimands Sky Betting and Gaming for using non-essential cookies without users’ consent
- Irish DPC fines LinkedIn €310m for behavioural analysis and targeted advertising breaches
- EDPB’s new publications on the ePrivacy Directive, processors and legitimate interests
Digital
Consumer
- European consumer body challenges in-game premium currencies
- CMA investigates Ticketmaster for dynamic pricing of Oasis tickets
- CMA publishes guidance for fashion retailers on environmental claims
- CJEU rules on pricing display strategies of Aldi Süd
- UK pricing practices in the spotlight
- News Flash: Timeline for the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act
Advertising
- Harmful Online Choice Architecture: ASA criticises Nike and Sky for “dark pattern” tactics
- Influencer posts and affiliate links: the whole marketing chain must know the rules
- Travel agent found to have misled consumers with “from” price claims
- ASA rules against telecoms companies on mid-contract price rises
- Round up of recent green claims
Commercial
- Agreements to agree: Price for goods “to be fixed” by agreement results in partially enforceable contract
- Construing material adverse effect/material adverse change clauses
- Reasonable notice termination not construed or implied into a contract with detailed termination provisions
- Effect of a contractual liability cap on set-off and contractual interest
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