Cranston's Consumers and the LawCambridge University Press, 2000 - 546 pages The third edition of Cranston's Consumers and the Law brings the reader fully up to date with developments in consumer law and includes important new material on utilities and financial services regulation. An internet home page has also been established for readers of this book. The home page has two main purposes. First, it provides links to websites containing primary sources such as codes, consultation documents and reports which are not always accessible in law libraries. Secondly it provides periodic updating information on key developments in law and policy. |
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The consumer as citizen | 8 |
Competition market economics and consumer protection | 22 |
CHAPTER 7 | 32 |
CHAPTER 2 | 39 |
Advertising selfregulation | 51 |
Selfregulation in perspective | 66 |
CHAPTER 3 | 73 |
b The creditors remedies | 269 |
c The consumers position | 276 |
Institutional changes in consumer credit | 283 |
CHAPTER 8 | 289 |
i Top management | 326 |
ii Vicarious liability of company | 328 |
CHAPTER 9 | 337 |
Food labelling | 354 |
New mechanisms for implementing private law rights | 120 |
CHAPTER 4 | 136 |
Product quality | 147 |
prospects for reform | 153 |
Correspondence with description | 156 |
6 | 163 |
c Reform of remedies | 170 |
CHAPTER 6 | 197 |
Consumer credit | 230 |
c Rate regulation and extortionate bargains | 254 |
Determination of a consumer credit agreement | 263 |
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advertising Advertising Standards Authority advice arbitration Bank bargain breach Chapter class action clauses codes of practice Commission common law competition complaints Consumer Contracts Regulations Consumer Credit Act consumer interest consumer protection consumer's Contract Terms Act costs Council courts Credit Act 1974 credit unions creditor damages defective products Descriptions Act 1968 EC Directive economic effect enforcement example Fair Trading Financial Services guarantee hire purchase implied terms individual involved issue legislation litigation manufacturers misrepresentation negligence offence Office of Fair Ombudsman payment plaintiffs problems procedures Product Liability reasonable reform regime regulatory remedies require retailer rules Section self-regulation self-regulatory seller small claims small claims courts standard form contracts statutory strict liability supplier Terms in Consumer Thalidomide tort trade association Trade Descriptions Act Unfair Contract Terms Unfair Terms