Legal Community
Consumer & data protection, competition, regulation, enforcement
Balancing privacy and innovation with regulatory enforcement to ensure a competitive market for consumers.
Finding an appropriate regulatory balance between privacy and innovation, private and public enforcement of consumer and other policies is important for a competitive market for consumers.
Through our Legal Community, BRC Retail and Associate Members engage with officials and agencies such as Competition and Markets Authority and Information Commissioner’s Office responsible for legislative/policy proposals on data protection, consumer protection, enforcement, competition, ecommerce, internet of things and more.
Objectives
Influencing implementation of changes to consumer enforcement landscape, with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and Trading Standards.
Shaping and building industry awareness of law changes and proposals impacting consumer protection and data protection.
Ensuring members stay abreast of CMA and Advertising Standards Authority developments on green claims and other areas.
Promoting smarter regulation with government.
WORKING GROUPS
There are no formal working groups but we do have dedicated meetings on data protection; consumer protection; competition; enforcement; and regulatory approaches.
Members
The following key roles and the teams that report into them:
Legal Directors
Senior Executives/Managers covering Data Protection, Consumer Affairs, Trading Standards, Compliance, Risk and Safety, Regulatory Affairs, Policy & Public Affairs
E-Commerce Directors
Associate Members
Latest Content
- Member Access
Meeting NoteLegal Community Meeting on Digital ID with DSIT and Home Office
27 Jun 2025 
Associate InsightHow tariffs could still impact UK retailers
23 Jun 2025
ArticleThe Four Lenses in Retail Leadership: Working Through the Friction
19 Jun 2025
Associate InsightCyber attackers are shopping around for weak links in retailers’ supply chains
17 Jun 2025- Member Access
Meeting NoteRegulation, Regulators and the Growth Agenda | 4th June 2025
09 Jun 2025 - Member Access
NewsPM's Office writes to BRC to set out importance of retail
06 Jun 2025 - Member AccessArticle
BRC respond to Industrial Strategy Green Paper
05 Jun 2025 
Associate InsightFive lessons from recent cyberattacks to protect your organisation
04 Jun 2025
Associate InsightUS Tariffs and Geopolitical Risk: Best Practice for Mitigating the Impact on UK Retailer Supply Chains
28 May 2025
Associate InsightBuy-Now-Pay-Later… and get regulated? – all change for short-term lending
22 May 2025
Upcoming Events
EventCommunity MeetingAsk the CMA on DMCC - Member Opportunity
Wed 16 July09:30 - 11:00Teams
EventMasterclassLearning ProgrammeHow to Integrate Nature into your Sustainability Strategy
Thu 11 September09:00 - 17:00The Form Rooms
EventMasterclassLearning ProgrammeSustainability Masterclass: Developing and delivering your strategy
Tue 7 October09:00The Form Rooms
What our members say
Spotting emerging risks and opportunities that arise from legal and regulatory reform is critical to our business. The BRC legal community brings together a collection of leading industry experts to share best practice in addition to influencing key policy makers. The proactive insight the BRC legal community secretariat provides is immeasurable, helping us to meet our strategic goals in a compliant manner.
Especially being a sole in-house lawyer I find the support of the BRC Legal Community very helpful. It is led by Graham Wynn who provides not just knowledge and patience but also a much needed sense of humour in the meetings that he chairs. In particular, I am grateful to the access it provides to bodies such as the CMA and the Home Office that ordinarily I would not get the opportunity to interact with.
Community Manager
Graham Wynn
Assistant Director for Consumer, E-Commerce and Regulatory Affairs | BRC
Graham joined the BRC in 2001 and has built up an extensive network in departments and agencies which he can call on for information, advice and to make submissions on policy proposals. He was Chairman of the EuroCommerce Internal Market and Consumer Affairs Committee for 10 years, having first lobbied in the EU in 1979. Prior to the BRC he worked on BBC local radio; was Secretary General of an international political organisation; and Head of Policy and the Shadow Cabinet Secretariat of the Liberal Party of Australia.
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