Trader defers payment for goods or services. Not covered by the Consumer Credit Acts 1974.…
This act can affect RSPCA as this business has to ensure their customers are entitle to fair treatment and honesty from the business such…
The most efficient way for consumers to get what they want is through the ‘market’, not the government, but businesses have more power than their customers. Some businesses can and will use abuse this power and cheat and steal from consumers to make money. Because of this, the government regulates the behaviour of businesses to have a market economy that functions properly. These laws mainly protect consumers against; misleading/deceptive representations, unconscionable conduct, unfair contracts, and unsafe goods and/or services. To protect consumers, different legal and non-legal approaches have been taken.…
Consumer Law is where marketing activities of the business must be within the constraints of the law. In recent years the European Union has strengthened consumer protection law. Businesses must keep up to date with legislation so that their activities are not unlawful…
The United States Government has consumer protection laws are put into place to protect the consumer from fraudulent or unfair business practices. Consumers also have the responsibilities and their rights. There are six specific rights that consumers are guaranteed. Consumer rights are a relatively new development and did not come to be until the 1950’s. Until the 1950’s consumers were on their own if they bought goods that were faulty or unsafe. In 1962 President John F. Kennedy made it official announced the creation of the first four consumer rights which he called the bill of consumer rights. He told Congress that those four rights that consumers should have were the right to be heard, the right to be informed, the right to safety and the right to choose. Later in 1985 the UN backed the bill of consumer rights and added four of their own to the list including the right to a healthy environment, the right to redress, the right to satisfaction of basic needs and the right to consumer education. Each of these consumer rights is in place today and every consumer should be educated as to what their rights are.…
The law has endeavoured to reform, gradually improve and develop itself due to the rising number of contemporary issues concerning consumers which include credit and product certification. The law is effective in most of these areas, although there is often need for additional protective measures which are supported by legal and non-legal measures in order to ensure consumers are substantially protected and supported. The continued work of legal bodies and reforms to legislation has been largely effective to a great degree in areas of credit and product certification, but is in vast need for further sustainability through associated efforts of legal non-legal responses in ensuring complete consumer protection and effective responsiveness. Most of the responses to issues involving the use of credit are legal responses, because most aspects of credit transactions are regulated by the Consumer Credit Code and is also a single uniform. Non legal avenues are also widely open to consumers in responding to credit. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission also plays a big role in legally responding and enforcing and monitoring mandatory product safety and information standards.…
Prepare a short fact sheet describing the Sale of Goods Act 1979, stating how it protects customers when they enter into contracts for goods. Use examples and/or case studies to illustrate the relevant implied conditions:…
A consumer can be defined as someone who buys the goods or services purchased for private use or consumption. The effectiveness of the law in protecting consumers has been effective but also non-effective because an assessment of its effectiveness can only be reached by a realisation of the development of consumer law in Australia. The legislation applies legal measures like laws such as the Trade Practices Act 1974 (cth), Consumer Protection Act 1969 (NSW) to help protect consumers. A wide variety of non-legal measures exist which aim to achieve justice for consumers. These include redress and remedies such as self-help and the media; however the legislation is quite ineffective in areas of consumer protection such as occupational licensing and contract rights.…
Most aspects of my decision making process fit the description of a rational choice, I considered both the costs and benefits. The costs being it is really expensive to own a car and then you have to continually put gas in it and worry about how much it costs if it breaks down. The benefits on the other hand are, not having to rely on other people to take me places and having more freedom than I do now. I did indeed pay attention to non-monetary and monetary factors. Although I do not think I paid nearly enough attention to considering opportunity costs, but I think I did a bit when I talked about paying for gas and having freedom, which when you have freedom you have to have gas.…
Please be informed that Mr. and Mrs. Henry Haskell have retained this Law Office in regards to their claim against you and your business.…
Economist Milton Friedman argues that a business’ “responsibility…generally will be to make as much money as possible”. Friedman clearly argues against the belief that a business has a moral duty to its consumers and rathers that their responsibility is instead to its shareholders, and therefore act in their best interests. Thus, Friedman would argue in the Ford Pinto case, in which Ford decided to risk consumer’s health over recalling the Pinto model, costing shareholders profit revenue, that Ford had no moral duty to recall the car as it had no moral duty to its consumers.…
pay a fine, and draft a proposed code of ethics for the advertising industry.1 The…
Criminals have legal rights during trial procedures. Without these rights there would be so much confusion and controversy in the court system today. There are four of them that I will give a brief summarization of and explain to you the consequences that could possibly happen if these legal rights were no longer upheld in the court system today. They are; the right to confront witnesses, the right to an impartial jury, the right to counsel at trial, and last but not least the right to be competent trial.…
The seeds of the concept of public interest litigation were initially sown in India by Krishna Iyer J., in 1976 in Mumbai Kamagar Sabha vs. Abdul Thai (AIR 1976 SC 1455; 1976 (3) SCC 832) and was initiated in Akhil I3/taratiya Sos/ail Karnuu:hari Sangh (Raihvaiy vs, Union of India, wherein an unregistered association of workers was permitted to institute a writ petition under Art.32 of the Constitution for the redrcssal of common grievances. Krishna lyer J., enunciated the reasons for liberalization of the rule of Locus Standi in Fertilizer Corporation Kamgar vs. Union of India (AIR 1981 SC 149; 1981 (2) SCR 52) and the ideal of 'Public Interest Litigation' was blossomed in S.F. Gupta and others vs. Union of India, (AIR 1982 SC 149).…
THANE: A mobile phone manufacturing company and a dealer recently gave Rs 18,900 as compensation to a resident of Mira Road in Kalyan for selling him a defective mobile. The compensation was paid following an order by theThane District Consumer Redressal Forum.…