Snapshots Spring 2022
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.
Commercial
- High Court finds Covid-19 pandemic amounts to a force majeure event
- Contractual interpretation: Court of Appeal takes commercial context into account
- Time is of the essence: delivery of face masks during the pandemic
- Contractual Interpretation: Covid 19 restrictions do not trigger material adverse change provisions
Data
- EDPB publishes final guidelines on breach notification
- UK introduces new data transfer regime with the IDTA and the IDTA Addendum
- Austria rules Google safeguards to be insufficient for US-transfer
- ICO appoints its new Information Commissioner
- ICO opinion on the importance of data protection standards when developing new online advertising technologies
Consumer
Digital
Advertising
- HFSS products face wave of new advertising legislation to combat obesity
- ASA upholds complaints against Lipton’s green packaging claims
- Aqua Pura TV ad banned for misleading recycling and eco-friendly claims
- Oatly ads banned for misleading climate claims
- CAP publishes new guidance on crypto ads
- ASA rules on Arsenal’s crypto ads
- Crypto.com ads ruled “misleading” by ASA
- ASA announces sanctions against influencers who repeatedly break advertising rules
- ASA publishes report on racial and ethnic stereotypes