A Halfords advertising campaign telling customers they may be “paying over the odds for repairs” could be challenged through the Advertising Standards Authority if it has been selective with the...

Nobody relishes a dawn raid. The impact on law-abiding professionals of being taken to a police station for questioning can be enormous. Radius Law director Iain Larkins knows the impact: he was there...

The automotive industry is going through a really interesting time, particularly with regard to the regulatory environment, with the FCA’s new Consumer Duty coming through which is set to have a...

June 2022 saw the new block exemption regulations coming into force in the EU and the UK following intense discussions and consultation, with the regulations updated to reflect the changes in the...

Despite all the questions surrounding the possible move towards agency agreements there are several hard lines surrounding the concept that neither manufacturers nor retailers will be able to cross if...

Do you use contractors who regularly provide services to you via an intermediary such as their own limited company or an agency? Maybe such contractors are engaged in the workshop or back office or...

IR35 law changes are due to come into force in April and could change your relationship with contractors Do you use contractors who regularly provide services to you via an intermediary such as their...

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April 2020 will see a key change to the IR35 off-payroll working rules, placing the responsibility on medium to large private sector employers for deciding a contractor’s employment status, and...

2019 has a few tricks ahead for the automotive retailing industry, with the continued implementation of WLTP (it’s the turn of vans this year), ongoing pressure on diesel and of course the UK’s...

It seems that challenges these days come packaged in four letter acronyms. In the past two years, GDPR seems to have been the number one worry in the automotive sector, but according to Auto Retail...

Towards the end of last year, the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) ruled that Glyn Hopkin Limited and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Limited (FCA) had misled customers by failing to disclose prior...

If you haven’t yet had a listen to Auto Retail Network’s GDPR webinar, then it’s well worth half an hour of your time. As well as explaining precisely what the legislation is all about and its...

With Article 50 triggered, a sense of realisation is kicking in. Economists agree that even the most optimistic scenarios for trade agreements, based on either the Norway model (EEA) or the...

2016 was a bumper year for political and legal changes which saw big changes to company law by the implementation of parts of the Small Business Enterprise and Employment Act (SBEE); the biggest...