We are pleased to announce the launch of our new online content hub, the Product Risk Radar. The hub includes the latest important legal developments in product regulatory and liability risk impacting the UK and EU and we will post regular updates to help you navigate this increasingly challenging landscape.
The Product Risk Radar homepage is located here. Alternatively, you can access our summary here, which can be downloaded so you can keep this file to hand to easily access the latest posts in just one click.
The areas covered include those listed below:
Regulatory requirements
- EU technology-related developments
- Reform of existing legislation
- Sustainability, Green Deal, Circular Economy
- The new Blue Guide
- Brexit-related developments
- Product safety and telecommunications
Product liability
- Adapting EU liability rules
- Collective redress and class actions
- Potential UK reform
Market surveillance and general product safety
- EU Market Surveillance Regulation
- New EU General Product Safety Regulation
- New Legislative Framework
- OPSS reform
Key Contacts
With a dedicated product compliance and risk management team in London, and across the globe, we are able to take a cradle to grave approach with clients and advise on all regulatory requirements. We focus on prevention and risk transfer techniques through contractual terms and insurance and defending product liability claims when they arise. We also regularly lead teams of product safety specialists worldwide advising on product recalls, and advise clients on crisis and reputation management, taking a holistic approach on all matters.
Author
Kate Corby
Kate Corby is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Dispute Resolution team in London. Kate has substantial experience of representing clients in complex litigation and arbitration, with a focus on construction and engineering disputes. She also has significant experience in advising on product liability, safety and regulatory compliance. Kate is a member of the firm's EMEA Dispute Resolution Steering Committee, and various of the firm's diversity related working groups at a local and global level.
Kate is ranked as a Next Generation Partner in Legal 500 UK, noted for her "strategic thinking”, as being “excellent, smart, focused and very adaptable” and "highly regarded". Kate has also been ranked in Chambers UK and described as an adviser "who has impressed both clients and peers. Sources say: "She has great business acumen in addition to great legal knowledge. This was a tremendous help in maintaining and improving our relationships with our strategic partners in a very delicate moment."
Author
Phoebe Bruce
Phoebe is an associate in the Baker McKenzie Dispute Resolution team in London. Phoebe practises in general commercial litigation, regulatory actions and class actions.
Phoebe has recently joined the London team, having transferred from the Firm's Dispute Resolution team in Sydney. Phoebe's experience includes acting in claims arising in tort, contract and statute across a range of sectors, including healthcare, product liability, technology and telecommunications.
Phoebe is admitted in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia.
During her training, Phoebe was seconded to an international medical manufacturing company for six months as in house legal counsel. Phoebe has previously worked at the District Court of New South Wales as a Judge's associate to the Honourable Justice Beckett.