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Commercial round-up for week ending 24 January 2014

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Published on: 23 January 2014
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Table of contents

  • New Practice Notes
  • News analysis
  • Consumer credit: Draft secondary legislation issued following summary of responses to consultation
  • Consumer protection: Consumer Rights Bill introduced to parliament
  • Consumer protection: CJEU rules on unfair terms in land contract
  • Competition: Competition and Markets Authority—Performance management framework
  • Competition law: European Commission investigates territorial restrictions in film distribution
  • Equality law: Government issues guidance on asking and responding to questions of discrimination
  • Financial services: What will Tesco Bank current accounts mean for consumer banking?
  • Procurement: EU to open up public procurement following UK government lobbying

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Article summary

The weekly round-up from Lexis+® UK Commercial. Reporting on key current awareness, news analysis, and including links to our weekly consultation, cases and legislation trackers which respectively track consultations and cases of note for commercial lawyers and changes to legislation and significant bills through Parliament. Also reporting on new Practice Notes or precedents published this week and Practice Notes or precedents which we have updated.

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