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List of contents
PART 1: PRIVATE LAW REMEDIES
1. Classification of consumer contracts
2. Ownership and risk
3. Sale by non-owner
4. Pre-contractual statements and contractual terms
5. Implied terms
6. Legal control of exemption clauses
7. Unfair terms in consumer contracts
8. Performance of consumer contracts for the sale of goods
9. Remedies
10. Package travel, holidays and tours
11. Product liability
12. Advertising
13. Consumer credit: introductory
14. Seeking credit business
15. Entry into credit or hire agreements
16. Consumer credit: liability for defective goods and services
17. Termination of credit agreement by the debtor
18. Consumer credit: remedies
PART 2: ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES AND CRIMINAL LAW SANCTIONS
19. Functions of the Director-General of Fair Trading under the Consumer Credit Act
20. Fair trading
21. Consumer safety
22. Trade descriptions
23. Food
24. Compensation orders
25. The settlement of consumer disputes
Summary
Consumer transactions may be broadly defined as the business supply of goods or services to the private individual. Clearly there are many different types of consumer transaction. This book does not purport to delineate every byway of consumer law, but concentrates on the legal principles applicable to those areas of most concern to traders, consumers and their legal advisors.
