UK Law

Tag: Consumer Law

  • Consumer-Credit Register

    Definition of Consumer-Credit Register In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Consumer-Credit Register : The register kept by the Director General of Fair Trading, as required by the Consumer Credit Act 1974, relating to the licensing or carrying on of […]

  • Consumer-Credit Register

    Definition of Consumer-Credit Register In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Consumer-Credit Register : The register kept by the Director General of Fair Trading, as required by the Consumer Credit Act 1974, relating to the licensing or carrying on of […]

  • Consumer Sales Law

    Resources Further Reading ARNOKOUROUS, G. I.,“The transposition of the Consumer Sales Directive into the Greek legal system”, ERPL, 2001, n.º 2-3, pp. 259 y ss. BEALE, H./HOWELLS, G., “EC Harmonisation of Consumer Sales Law – A missed opportunity?”, Journal of Contract Law, 1997, n.º […]

  • Consumer Trade Practice

    Definition of Consumer Trade Practice In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Consumer Trade Practice : Any practice carried on in connection with the supply of goods (by sale or otherwise) or services to consumers. These practices include the terms or […]

  • Consumer Goods

    Definition of Consumer Goods In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Consumer Goods : Goods normally supplied for private use or consumption. The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 provides that if consumer goods prove defective when used otherwise than […]

  • Consumer-Hire Business

    Definition of Consumer-Hire Business In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Consumer-Hire Business : Any business that comprises or relates to the bailment of goods under *consumer-hire agreements regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974. With certain […]

  • Adulteration

    Definition of Adulteration In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Adulteration : The mixing of other substances with food. It is an offence of *strict liability under the Food Act 1984 to sell any food containing a substance that would endanger health. It is […]

  • Consumer-Hire Agreement

    Definition of Consumer-Hire Agreement In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Consumer-Hire Agreement : An agreement made by a person with an individual, a partnership, or with some other unincorporated body (the hirer) for the *bailment of goods to the hirer. […]

  • Consumers

    Resources See Also Further Reading Consumers in the Encyclopedia of Britain Consumers in the Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary Consumers in the Halsbury's Laws of England Consumers in the Stroud's Judicial Dictionary of Words and Phrases Consumers in the Jowitt's Dictionary of […]

  • Consumer

    Definition of Consumer In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Consumer : A private individual acting otherwise than in a course of a business. Consumers are often given greater legal protection when entering into contracts, for example by having a right to […]

  • Distance Selling

    Definition of Distance Selling In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Distance Selling : The sale of goods or services to a consumer in which the parties do not meet, such as sale by mail order, telephone, digital TV, email, or the Internet. The EU distance […]

  • Pornography

    Pornography Attitudes Toward Pornography Introduction to Pornography Attitudes toward pornography generally can be classified into one of four major perspectives: conservative, feminist, postmodern, and liberal. Tensions among these viewpoints have only increased with the quantum leap in […]

  • Right to Be Forgotten

    The European Court of Justice (ECJ) The European Court of Justice decision to uphold the Spanish data protection regulator’s initial ruling against Google – who were asked to remove the index and stop any future access to the digitised newspaper article by searching for the individual’s […]

  • Payment Methods

    Payment Methods and Options The range of methods in which individuals and organizations are able to make and receive payments is growing at a steady pace. Apart from cash, for a long time the other available payment method was only cheques. Currently, there are a wide variety of payment […]

  • Faster Payments

    Faster Payments is a banking service that allows you to send and receive low-value sterling payments in almost real time. Fast Payments all year round. Faster Payments is a payment service which allows most customers of UK banks to be able to make and receive sterling payments within the […]