Consumer Protection & Trading Standards

 

Kings Chambers is able to provide expert advice and representation covering all areas of consumer protection and trading law whether it is for regulator, the businesses or the individual consumer.

Regulatory investigations cover a wide range of consumer law issues from counterfeiting to food safety.  The Practice Group offers specialist advice and representation before the criminal and civil courts and specialist bodies and tribunals.  Chambers’ experience ranges from prosecuting and defending criminal proceedings to challenges to the decisions of specialist bodies such as the Advertising Standards Authority.

The team is experienced in matters involving Trading Standards’ Departments of local authorities, OFCOM, Office of Fair Trading, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS), Food Standards Agency and the Advertising Standards Authority. Areas of expertise include but are not limited to:

• Regulatory Prosecutions;
• Confiscation and Forfeiture proceedings;
• Appeals against Statutory Notices;
• Enforcement Order Applications;
• Challenges to Enforcement Notices;
• Judicial Review Proceedings; and
• Adjudication Proceedings before Specialist Bodies.

Areas of work covered by members of the Practice Groups include the following:

• Unfair Trading Practices;
• False Trade Descriptions;
• Trademark  Infringement;
• Copyright Infringement;
• Product Safety and Recall;
• Advertising Standards; and
• Broadcasting, Communications and Media.

To view a list of our members who specialise in this area, please click on the drop down menu to the left.