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What legal developments can businesses in the UK expect in 2024?

Our Knowledge Team looks at what lies ahead for business law
Real estate

What's on the horizon for English real estate in 2024?

Expect more focus on sustainability, transparency and building safety and significant reforms for residential property
Regulatory Outlook

Environment, social and governance | UK Regulatory Outlook January 2024

FCA publishes Sustainability Disclosure Requirements | How UK and EU regulators plan to hold financial service providers accountable for greenwashing
Regulatory Outlook

Environment | UK Regulatory Outlook January 2024

Government delays mandatory Biodiversity Net Gain to January 2024 and publishes first statutory instruments | Government launches consultation on the
Regulatory Outlook

Modern slavery | UK Regulatory Outlook January 2024

Regulation prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market | Eradicating modern slavery in UK government supply chains
Regulatory Outlook

Advertising and marketing | UK Regulatory Outlook January 2024

Greenwashing | UK Online Advertising Programme | 'Dark patterns'
Regulatory and compliance

New UK advertising guidance as ASA proposes to actively investigate green disposal claims in 2024

Research by the ASA gives insight into consumer beliefs about the veracity of claims and understanding of terms used
Competition, antitrust and trade

UK competition regulator issues first informal guidance on sustainability collaborations

Open-door policy can provide businesses with competition law certainty on proposed green agreements

How to avoid greenwashing risk in the European real estate sector

As sustainability becomes an integral part of developing and managing property, the possibility of a claim of greenwashing is now
Defence, Security and Aerospace

Green aviation claims fail to land with UK regulator

Advertising regulator finds against airline sustainability claims, while further CMA scrutiny of greenwashing is anticipated
Financial Services

International Funds Legal Update | December 2023

Greenwashing, SDR, sustainability finance framework, fund disclosure rules and more

How UK and EU regulators plan to hold financial service providers accountable for greenwashing

What can providers do to mitigate the risk of accusations of greenwashing as regulatory focus on ESG-related claims tightens?