Miran Bahra
Miran is an international products lawyer specialising in product safety, compliance and liability matters. Her work spans across a number of sectors including cosmetics, consumer goods, food and beverages, life sciences, industrial and automotive products. She has experience in dealing with regulatory matters with a multi-jurisdictional element across the full product lifecycle including product launches, ongoing regulatory compliance, due diligence, advertising and marketing, recalls and coordinating corrective actions. Miran also assists in complex litigation, including high-profile group and mass tort claims.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2022
Experience
- Associate, Ashurst (July 2024 - Present)
- Associate, Kennedys Law LLP (2022 - 2024)
- Trainee Solicitor, Kennedys Law LLP (2020 - 2022)
- Paralegal, DAC Beachcroft LLP (2016 - 2019)
Membership
- International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organisation
Qualifications
- LLB Law (2016)
- LPC and LLM in Law, Business and Management (2020)
Education
- University of Leicester (2016)
- University of Law Moorgate (2020)
1 Contributions by Miran Bahra
PRACTICE NOTES
UK Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022—Part 1 consumer IoT security: scope, operator duties, exemptions, enforcement, key dates and Security Requirements Regulations 2023
PSTIA 2022
PSTIA 2022 is a two-part statute shaped over several years, drawing chiefly on the government’s 2018 Code of Practice for consumer internet of things security (the Code) and the Electronic Communications Code (see below). It was introduced with two declared policy goals:
to enhance digital connectivity and stimulate UK economic growth by removing barriers to deploying essential infrastructure
to strengthen the security of consumer connectable or Internet of Things (IoT) products
This Practice Note focuses primarily on PSTIA 2022, Pt 1 (PSTIA 2022, ss 1–56), which addresses product safety alongside IoT security. PSTIA 2022, Pt 2 relates to telecommunications infrastructure and is touched on only briefly here to set the legislation in context.
The Act applies to ‘relevant connectable products’ (see below), also described as IoT products or devices. While IoT has no formal legal definition, the term is commonly used to denote a matrix of devices interconnected because they contain sensors, software or other technologies enabling them to connect, communicate and share data with one another. Increasingly prevalent, it spans technology ranging from mobile phones and tablets through to smart...
Information Law
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