Webinar
CMA Compliance Update
The impact of the CMA’s latest guidance (including National Trading Standards referrals), the OfS’ heightened focus on consumer law compliance, and how Higher Education Providers should respond to ensure consumer law compliance moving forward.
Pinsent Masons would like to invite you to the next session in our series, focusing on CMA Compliance Update. This session will consider the impact of the CMA’s latest guidance (including National Trading Standards referrals), the OfS’ heightened focus on consumer law compliance, and how Higher Education Providers should respond to ensure consumer law compliance moving forward.
Topics covered
- What is consumer law, why is it relevant and what laws apply?
- Update on the legal/regulatory position – new CMA guidance, what has changed and what is the impact
- Reminder of key concepts and compliance tips under each of the key themes of the CMA guidance
- Examples of unfair terms
- Recent referrals of providers by the OfS to National Trading Standards in relation to potentially unfair terms – what will OfS/National
- Trading Standards accept and how should this be reflected in T&Cs?
- How to effectively manage changes to offerings
- The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (“DMCC”) and will the DMCC change things?
- OfS vs CMA vs OIA – clarity around the roles of each and their remit (including expectations going forward)
Who should attend?
Any in-house legal counsel or executives working in the Universities and Higher Education sector.
