The Indian Supreme Court has ruled that doctors can be sued for medical negligence in consumer courts set up under India’s consumer protection act of 1986. The landmark judgment‚ delivered last week‚ caps the nine year old controversy over whether doctors providing medical services to patients on payment of fees can be held liable under this act. Responding to appeals by doctors against earlier judgments by state high courts‚ the Supreme Court ruled that patients aggrieved by deficiencies in medical
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Lehman‚ Grange‚ had engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct "contrary to what is now a plethora of pointlessly technical and befuddling statutory provisions scattered over many acts in defined situations". He did not stop there‚ adding: "The repealed‚ simple and comprehensive section 52 of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) that prohibited corporations engaging in misleading or deceptive conduct in trade or
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Telephone Consumer Protection Act Has your family time or evening dinner ever been interrupted by a call from a telemarketer? If so‚ you’re not alone. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act was first passed by congress in 1991 in response to consumer concerns about the growing number of unsolicited telephone marketing calls to their homes and the increasing use of automated and prerecorded messages. (Unwanted) Signed into law by President Bush as Public Law 102-243‚ the Telephone Consumer Protection
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the need for consumer awareness at school level. Children are becoming one of the largest consumers in the country and parents are permitting their children to take decisions while shopping. Most of the parents have made it a point to take their children to shopping and this has made most children aware of the different kinds of products that are available. Children now check the details of the product and enquire thoroughly before buying any product from the market. Consumer protection is an important
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What were the advances in information technology that resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of each act? Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991/Do Not Call Implementation Act 2003 XBIS/220 Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991/Do Not Call Implementation Act 2003 These days no matter where you look there is some type of information technology in your presence. It can be seen while someone is walking‚ eating lunch in a cafe or even driving
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Sustainable Consumption: The Responsibility of Consumers and Producers The fact that the world is now facing massive population growth and overconsumption has made the threat of scarcity becomes never more real than before. The pressure to maintain sustainable consumption is echoing everywhere. This suggests the need for active involvement from the demand side of the market in safeguarding sustainability‚ through sustainable consumption. Attempting to align the understanding about sustainable consumption
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that the horizontal side of the matrix is based on the hypothesis that over time there is consumers’ movement from thinking toward feeling. Also‚ Vaughn believes that high and low involvement (the vertical side of the matrix) is also a continuum‚ proposing that high involvement can decay to relatively low involvement over time. Vaughn developed a planning model by pulling together the major theories of consumer behavior and advertising to make the FCB Grid. Vaughn (1980) reviewed four traditional theories
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Consumer Viewing Habits of India in 2019 “The science of today is the technology of tomorrow”‚ as put by Edward Teller. 5 years down the lane‚ we would not see a vibrant change in the viewing habits of Indians but a bold and a strong modification & a continuation of what is going on in the present. Of course‚ science has bought half of the world into the digitalization mode. Let us view now how this “viewing” of TV would take us in future. Television was always our partner in crime and joy‚ it
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“The Negative Impact of the Internet on Consumer Purchasing “ In today’s society‚ the internet has had a profound effect on the way people are living‚ working and consuming products. Convenience‚ time efficiency‚ and the availability of products at a possible lower cost are all enticing reasons to shop online; however‚ many people are still hesitant in shopping online in fear of their privacy and security as well as the inability to actually see the product they are purchasing and be able to instantly
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How does the law protect the rights of consumers?! The monumental changes in the last two centuries have rendered consumers especially vulnerable to unfair business conduct. In reaction to this the law has set out exactly what the rights of consumers are‚ and attempts to protect them through a number of ways. Over the years‚ the courts have made numerous decisions in relation to consumers and businesses and the result has been a thorough body of common laws that regulate the formation of contracts
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