Commercial Law 2026 Update: Key Developments in Contracts, Regulation & Risk

Introduction

Presented by expert speaker Iain Sim, this webinar will provide corporate and commercial lawyers (and other professionals) with a comprehensive overview of recent Q1 and Q2 developments in the commercial arena.

The webinar will enhance your commercial awareness of the UK ecosystem, providing actionable, practice-focused guidance to help you protect your commercial clients from escalating regulatory exposures and structural legal shifts.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• Key commercial cases from Q1 and Q2
• Good faith in commercial performance
• Director duties vs. minority protection
• Procedural and jurisdictional realities
• Commercial contracts update
• Managing contractual equilibrium
• Standardisation vs. non-standard risk
• Consumer-facing contract shifts
• New legislation coming on-stream
• Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCCA) enforcement
• Data (Use and Access) reform
• Corporate threshold adjustments
• Developments in ESG
• The transition to UK SRS
• Cross-border supply chain impacts
• Anti-greenwashing clauses
• AI and data
• Allocating risk for non-deliberate AI harm
• Drafting AI intellectual property and data guardrails
• Automated output liability
• Competition update
• The new face of regulatory fines
• Subscription and ‘drip pricing’ crackdowns
• Merger control and supply chain integration
• Upcoming developments
• Horizon scanning for the rest of the year
• The evolving legal curriculum

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Thursday 15th October 2026

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