Snapshots Spring 2025
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
- European Data Protection Board adopts statement on age assurance technologies
- New ICO guidance for “consent or pay” online ads
- Status update on the UK’s new Data (Use and Access) Bill
- Developing responsible GenAI – the UK and EU regulatory view
- High Court rules against Sky Betting’s targeted marketing
Digital
- UK’s “AI Opportunities Action Plan”
- UK’s new AI Cyber Security Code of Practice
- The UK Government’s consultation on Copyright and AI
- The Online Safety Act: Illegal Harms Codes officially in force, focus now on children
- EU Guidance on the AI Act
- The EU’s Work Programme 2025 – ePrivacy Reg and AI Liability Directive dropped!
Consumer
- CMA’s enforcement road map for the new DMCCA plus consumer protection priorities
- CMA guidance on unfair commercial practices under the DMCCA
- CJEU considering liability of App Store providers for unlawful loot boxes
- EU Online Dispute Regulation Platform discontinued!
- EU proposals to make online marketplaces liable for unsafe or illegal goods and collection of taxes
- EU “ecodesign” product regulation lands, together with new digital product passport
- “Ronan’s Law” to impact retailer and online platform liability for knife sales
Advertising
Commercial
- Variation of contract by email valid without expressly referring to exercise of contractual right
- Court of Appeal confirms financial claim caught by clause excluding liability for loss of anticipated profits
- Contract formation: use of emoji showed objective intention to enter into contract
- Supreme Court determines that the parties’ common intention decides whether a contract is varied or replaced
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