19 November 2009 | Steven Mills
The FSA implemented its new retail banking conduct regime on 1 November 2009. It will apply to UK authorised banks, building societies, e-money issuers and credit unions.
The FSA now has the responsibility...
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18 November 2009 | Paul Gershlick
Danone has been pulled up for having a misleading television advert. After a consumer complained, the Advertising Standards Authority ruled that the advert for the Actimel yogurt was misleading. The ASA...
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18 November 2009 | Paul Gershlick
The Advertising Standards Authority – the advertising watchdog – has ruled that a leaflet presented as a fake invoice for trade mark registrations was misleading. The leaflet, sent to businesses by...
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18 November 2009 | Mark Weston
MSIP (an English company) and CH (a Cayman Islands company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange) entered into an agreement. The agreement provided that English courts would have exclusive jurisdiction...
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18 November 2009 | Paul Gershlick
If everyone in the UK went online, it would save the economy about £22 billion, according to PwC. The research found that some 10 million adults have never been online. The government could save about...
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18 November 2009 | Mark Weston
The European Commission has announced that it is going to clamp down on the practice of web sites charging different prices to customers depending on their surfing habits or their locations. Following...
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18 November 2009 | Paul Gershlick
The European Commission has announced that it is continuing to take the UK to the European Court for failure to properly implement Directives that protect people’s online privacy rights. The Commission...
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18 November 2009 | Paul Gershlick
Autoclenz had a contract to valet cars for British Car Auctions and it provided people that it called self-employed valet subcontractors and issued them with subcontracts. In line with those people being...
18 November 2009 | Paul Gershlick
The European Union has published a new Directive to replace the previous E-Money Directive from eight years ago. The aim of the Directives is to set up a market for virtual currency to be used in electronic...
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18 November 2009 | Mark Weston
The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (‘ICANN’) - the body responsible for regulating the Internet’s addressing system – has agreed to allow non-Latin-script domain names...
