Retail is a highly competitive and regulated industry and retailers therefore require advice across virtually all areas of the law. We have assigned a team of experts across our practice areas to provide specialist advice on the legal issues retailers may face on a day to day basis.

The Retail team includes partner, Maninder Gill, who joined us from an international luxury retailer where he was the Legal Director for a number of years. We understand the retail industry and are able to provide practical and commercial advice.

Consumers

Businesses that interact with consumers have to comply with a multitude of rules and regulations and retailers therefore have to face issues that range from obligations under the Sale of Goods Act, the fairness of contractual terms under the Unfair Contract Terms Act, agreements which may infringe Competition law, consumer regulations generally and product liability issues under various regulations. Regulators range from Trading Standards departments to the Office for Fair Trading and the Competition Commission.

E-commerce

E-commerce retailers also have to comply with additional rules that may vary from each country they deliver their products to, including those rules that allow for cooling off periods and those that relate to the application of delivery and return delivery charges. Retailers who are looking to provide own label store and credit cards in conjunction with a bank would also require specialist advice.

Specialist ex-City lawyers

Our experienced lawyers can advise on navigating through the applicable law from the initial planning stages and can also draft or review your terms and conditions and audit your informational and e-commerce websites for legal compliance. As a full service law firm with several specialist ex-City lawyers we can, in addition to the above, also advise on all the various issues with which retailers may require assistance.

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