Continuing Crackdown on Automated Marketing Callers (UK)

Consumer Law
A £350,000 fine for a Welsh-based company that clocked up a record 146 million illegal calls about Payment Protection Insurance was followed three days later by a £260,000 fine for a Coventry company that made 16.7 million calls about boiler
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CMA Sets Ground Rules for Online Comparison Sites (UK)

Consumer Law
28/09/2017 While confirming that price comparison sites and other apps help people shop around and force businesses to ‘raise their game’, an in-depth study by the Competition and Markets Authority has also concluded that improvements are needed to help people
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Survey solicits suppliers’ views on supermarket sharp practices (UK)

Consumer Law
22/09/2017 Survey solicits suppliers’ views on supermarket sharp practices (UK) Suppliers to retailers regulated by the Grocery Code have been invited by the code’s adjudicator, Christine Tacon, to contribute their views to a YouGov mini-survey focusing on three of the
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1.5% commission rate fixed by estate agents cartel ruled illegal (UK)

Consumer Law
1.5% commission rate fixed by estate agents cartel ruled illegal (UK). 20/09/2017 Five out of six estate agents from the Burnham-on-Sea area of Somerset, who colluded in an agreement to increase their profits by driving their minimum commission rates up
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Data protection for the digital age

Consumer Law
Data protection for the digital age (UK) Legislation that seeks to achieve a balance between giving people more control over their personal data and allowing data vital for our economy, our democracy and our protection to be processed without interruption
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