Consumer Protection and the Criminal Law - Law, Theory, and Policy in the Uk

Informationen zum Autor Peter Cartwright is a lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham. He specialises in consumer protection, criminal law and banking regulation. His publications include Consumer Protection in Financial Services (Kluwer 1999) as well as numerous articles. Klappentext Consumer protection, trade descriptions, product safety, and how far UK law holds traders responsible. Zusammenfassung How does criminal law affect consumers? Cartwright considers issues of consumer protection! asking whether the state should intervene between consumers and producers. He considers topics including trade descriptions and product safety! and considers how far UK law should hold traders (particularly corporations) to account for their activities towards consumers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Consumer protection rationales; 2. Techniques of regulation; 3. The role of criminal sanctions in consumer protection; 4. The use of the criminal law; 5. Consumers and safety: the protection of physical integrity; 6. The protection of economic interests; 7. The enforcement of regulatory consumer law; 8. Conclusions; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Cartwright, Peter (University of Nottingham) Cartwright
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.10.2001
• EAN: 9780521590808
• ISBN: 978-0-521-59080-8
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; Criminal law & procedure, LAW / Corporate, Commercial law, Finance & accounting, International economic & trade law, Finance and accounting, Public international law: economic and trade, Sale of goods law