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 |
Consumer credit 230 | 43 |
Advertising selfregulation | 51 |
Selfregulation in perspective | 66 |
Determination of a consumer credit agreement | 263 |
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 |
CHAPTER 3 | 73 |
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 |
3 | 235 |
c Rate regulation and extortionate bargains | 254 |
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| Title | Cranston's Consumers and the Law Law in Context |
| Authors | Colin Scott, Julia Black |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0406988021, 9780406988027 |
| Length | 546 pages |
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