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Having been on the horizon since September 2023, when Labour announced their plan to reduce the cost of buying school uniforms, the new rules on limiting the number of compulsory items of branded school uniform come into force on 1 September 2026.

Since I started my training contract in 1997 and for the nearly 30 years since, I have picked up a lot of learning points from my time drafting and negotiating commercial contracts and advising clients. As well as keeping up to date with new cases through the year, at the beginning of the year VWV lawyers have a commercial contract update training which provides an opportunity for us to stand back and question why we do things and what lessons we can learn from recent developments. This article shares some of those 2025 lessons with you.