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New UK guidance for social media content for the pharmaceutical industry

United Kingdom - March 10 2023 At the end of January 2023, the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA) issued its first published guidance on social medial…

Andrew Austin, Harriet Hanks

CMA expands scope of greenwashing investigation to cover FMCG

United Kingdom - January 27 2023 Yesterday, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that it is investigating ‘green’ claims made about various fast moving consumer…

Andrew Austin, Charlie Fisher

The proposed revised Product Liability Directive - implications for life sciences

European Union - December 13 2022 The EU’s proposed new Product Liability Directive will be particularly important for the life sciences industry. Many of the leading cases under the…

Andrew Austin, Harriet Hanks

UK advertising regulator publishes consumer perception research on common environmental claims

United Kingdom - December 6 2022 On 20 October 2022, the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), published its anticipated report on consumer understanding of commonly-used…

Andrew Austin, Anya Conceicao Silva

COP27: mitigating climate change and navigating the legal risk of greenwashing

OECD, United Kingdom, USA - November 2 2022 In this post in our series looking at the four pillars of the COP27 goals and vision, we look at mitigation. A core objective of COP27 is for states…

Felix Roscam Abbing, Jan Henning Buschfeld, Simon Duncombe, Stefanie Fay, Jennifer King, Lukas Pfister, Elvira Sihvola, Rachel Stephens