EU product safety and market surveillance package | Shook, Hardy & Bacon

Legal Briefing

As part of the European Commission’s continued commitment to product safety, the Commission has proposed a product safety and market surveillance package for ‘safer products and more fair play in the internal market’. The aim is two-fold: primarily, strengthening consumer protection with a new Regulation on Consumer Product Safety (COM (2013) 78). Secondly, rationalising and …

Employing Croatian nationals following the country’s entry into the EEA | Magrath Sheldrick LLP

Legal Briefing

On 1 July 2013, Croatia joined the European Economic Area (EEA) and, as 
such, Croatian citizens are now able to enter and reside in the UK without needing to acquire a visa – provided they are not an unreasonable burden on public funds. In order to remain in the UK longer than three months, they …

Climate change from science to business: the game changing report from 
the IPCC | Burges Salmon

Legal Briefing

Some are hailing it as a ‘landmark’ report. Other prominent figures in the business world are saying it is the ‘tipping point’ on climate change – they are talking about the Summary for Policymakers of the fifth assessment report, which was published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at the end of September. …

What’s in a name? High Court delivers ruling on availability of rectification for misnomer and mistake in Liberty Mercian v Cuddy | Edwards Wildman Palmer UK LLP

Legal Briefing

Correctly recording the name of a contracting party within written documentation sounds elementary. However, the reality is that in the modern corporate age, where companies within the same group often use very similar names to one another and further compound confusion by using generic trading names, identifying the appropriate contractual party is not so straightforward. …