Sarah Moore & Harry Wilkinson shed light on the underutilised ‘black box’ of product liability claims
A new Product Liability Directive for Europe, the same old Consumer Protection Act for the UK: will UK claimants be left clinging to the wreckage? Sarah Moore & Katie Bohl analyse the growing rift
Sarah Moore & Lily Parmar look at the impact of a recent Dutch ruling for product liability lawyers in the UK
Public inquiries related to product liability do vital work but are undermined by a lack of accountability & commitment to action, as Sarah Moore, Stuart Warmington & Lily Parmar explain
Don’t get your hopes up? Sarah Moore & Stuart Warmington consider the European Commission’s proposals for a claimant-friendly overhaul of the PLD
Is there hope on the horizon for product liability claimant lawyers? Sarah Moore, Alexandre Predal & Stuart Warmington examine some promising developments
Sarah Moore & Stuart Warmington discuss product liability & the platform economy at home & abroad
Product liability post-Brexit: Sarah Moore & Stuart Warmington discuss what the post-Brexit ‘new world’ might look like for product regulation in the UK
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston
Harneys senior leadership appointments
Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan
Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires
Anthony Collins—Laura Moss
Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector
NEWS
More than 100 teams from the legal and financial services sectors competed in five sports at the 51st Law Society RFC Festival of Sport earlier this month
Part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, rather than the sole cause, the Supreme Court has held in Augustine v Data Cars
Britain’s new acknowledgement that Israel’s occupation is unlawful, and accompanying settlement-goods ban and sanctions, is significant but overdue, argue Danny Friedman KC and Victor Kattan in NLJ this week
New planning fee rises, wider trade union access rights and a service-by-email trap feature in Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
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