Snapshots Summer 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
Digital
- Navigating the AI Act: The GPAI Code of Practice and Guidelines
- Ofcom publishes children's online safety codes and risk assessment guidance
- EU Commission's call for evidence on European Business Wallet
- New UK Software Security Code of Practice
- First fines issued under the EU Digital Markets Act
- EU Commission seeks feedback on guidelines for the protection of minors online under the Digital Services Act
Consumer
Advertising
- ASA & CAP's focus on AI influencer ad disclosures
- Brand-only ads excluded from restrictions on advertising "less healthy" food and drink products
- CJEU rules on comparative advertising and online comparison services
- CAP issues guidance on use of AI in ads
- ASA rules against brand for an ad it had never seen
- Green claims update
Commercial
- Court of Appeal identifies key principles for contractual interpretation of conditions precedent
- Long term agreements and right to terminate on reasonable notice
- Excluding liability for online game errors – construing the priority, incorporation and enforceability of contract terms
- Enforcing third party rights – is a benefit under the contract always necessary?
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