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From 9 November 2023 a new penalty regime and legal consequences will apply to unfair terms in standard form contracts with small businesses and consumers. Laws regulating the use of unfair contract terms already exist, ...

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, China experienced a 6.3% growth in GDP during the second quarter of 2023, albeit starting from a relatively low point. Nevertheless, when comparing this growth to the first ...

As MSK reported last year, there was a distinct possibility of legal, including constitutional, challenges to the new California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (the “CAADCA"), a law aimed at protecting children online ...

The contribution on packaging, already in force for plastic or multi-material packaging with plastic since July 1, 2022, would come into effect on September 1, 2023, for aluminum or multi-material packaging with aluminum ...

In September 2023, Parliament approved new rules on consumer credits, which aim to update Directive 2008/48/EC. These changes come in response to challenges such as digitalization and consumer over-indebtedness. These ne ...

ANZ Bank, one of Australia’s “big four” banks, which has had a forward thinking posture towards blockchain and crypto-assets, has announced that it has completed a pilot building on lessons learned from a SWIFT blo ...