Product Liability and Regulatory Risk
Your partners in product risk
Across the world, companies manufacturing or selling products face ever-changing regulatory and legal landscapes. As your product law partners, we will help you navigate through the full product cycle.
Here we offer insights and analysis on the latest developments influencing the products law landscape and are dedicated to keeping you up to date and prepared for significant legislative, regulatory and policy changes relevant to product liability and regulatory risk. Using our deep expertise and global reach spanning 193+ jurisdictions, we will keep you in the know regarding major international and regional regulatory changes.
Our multi-disciplinary global Product Liability and Regulatory Risk team deliver end-to-end advice on product law issues, helping manufacturers, distributors, importers, retailers and insurers navigate product safety, compliance and liability matters. Please visit our Dispute Resolution services page for more information on how we can help you.
Our insights
Navigating the regulatory landscape of medical devices and health products
The medical devices product regulatory regimes show a clear trend towards global alignment, as innovation, emerging technologies and large-scale product liability claims become universal concerns. We look at product safety regulatory regimes, commercialisation and product life cycle frameworks, regulator engagement, liability for defective claims, and policy development and legislative reform.
Greenwatch: How widespread is greenwashing by UK businesses? Which? Investigates
A report published by consumer body Which? considers the prevalence of potentially misleading green claims in the UK. We look at the useful guidance the report provides to businesses looking to assess the compliance of their claims and the risk of enforcement action.
From Telemedicine to AI: The Complex Regulation of Digital Healthcare
While enhancements in the digital healthcare landscape offers new benefits for healthcare, our article considers how the regulatory framework must evolve to keep pace with technological advancements, address legal risks, and ensure the safety and privacy of patients.
TGA Battles Unsafe and Counterfeit Products
Recent product safety challenges in the Australian pharmaceutical market have seen the Therapeutic Goods Administration exercises its wide-ranging enforcement powers. Going forward, it will be interesting to see whether it translates these individual, enforcement actions into a more comprehensive and holistic approach.
Big Changes in Medical Device Safety Regulations
Rapid changes around product safety issues in the medical device industry are likely to continue in Australia. Companies are encouraged to track these developments to ensure forward-thinking in their product development and general compliance practices.
Food Standards in Australia – Proposals and Emerging Issues
The Food Standards Australia New Zealand 2023-2024 Annual Report outlines its goals and major achievements in food standards development, food safety, surveillance and evidence, and collaboration and stakeholder engagement. Companies should consider the regulator’s agenda when planning for product development.
Automotive Regulators Balance Safety and the Environment
Recent product regulation in Australia for the automotive industry has focused on safety issues, including risks associated with e-micromobility and lithium-ion batteries, as well as environmentally focused regulations largely related to emissions. Manufacturers and suppliers must implement the growing regulatory requirements, as well as be aware of the emerging patterns and trends.
Product Safety Priorities for 2025
Australia’s national product safety regulator, the ACCC has announced its priorities for 2025-26. Its policy and enforcement intentions are observed, and at times adopted, throughout the world. Both local and global businesses benefit from tracking its priorities as an indication of likely regulatory trends in Australia and more widely. We examine the new goals.
The Global Rise of Collective Redress: Trends, Challenges and Evolving Class Action Mechanisms
Globally, the mechanisms for collective redress are developing at a rapid pace. Although the notion of having the interests of multiple parties represented as a group within proceedings is not a foreign concept for many jurisdictions around the world, in many regions the formalisation of collective redress mechanisms is still a fairly recent development. Even where such systems previously existed in some countries, their use to date has been limited – until now.
