Snapshots Autumn 2026
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
Digital
Consumer
- Was/now pricing: context still counts as High Court rejects CMA’s proposed 1:2 “Fixed Volume Ratio”
- CMA cracks down on StubHub UK for drip pricing breaches
- CMA fines Marks Electrical for automatic opt-in breaches
- EU ends duty-free treatment for low-value imports and introduces temporary €3 per-item duty
- Sporting Events Bill: a “switch‑on” framework reshaping event ticketing, resale, ambush marketing and more
Advertising
- ASA rulings tighten expectations for video games marketing
- Online Safety Act: Ofcom consults on fraudulent advertising codes
- HFSS: ASA rulings provide clarity on where “brand advertising” ends and product advertising begins
- ASA Pulse Report on environmental claims in online advertising
- ASA rulings target fashion retailers’ environmental product claims
Commercial
- Solicitors’ email marked “subject to contract” confirming settlement agreement agreed insufficient to create binding contract
- Supreme Court restricts contractor’s right to terminate for repeated employer defaults
- Correcting an obvious mistake in drafting as a matter of construction
- A stipulated time period term was not a condition and its breach did not therefore constitute a repudiatory breach entitling recovery for loss of bargain damages
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