Welcome to the October 2023 edition of our Digest, covering legal and regulatory developments from the last few weeks relevant to advertising, marketing and brand-owning businesses. As usual, for each item we provide a succinct summary accompanied by a link to the full text of the relevant official source or our own report.

In this month’s Digest we discuss the Online Safety Act finally receiving Royal Assent and Ofcom’s plans for regulation under the Act, CAP taking stock after one year of the “strong appeal” test in gambling marketing, the ASA’s assessment of its IPP pilot, a further CMA investigation into green claims, this time in the energy sector, a UK government consultation on the marketing of e-cigarettes, and the fact that there are new rules for advertising crypto assets. Finally, we look at the Retained EU Law Reform Act and its implications for intellectual property matters (some of which are also relevant for consumer issues).

We hope you enjoy it.