Consumer Redress for Misleading and Aggressive Practices

[pompeyfaith]

Not sure if this is the right forum so please move if not.

http://www.justice.gov.uk/lawcommission/1417.htm

[Crispybacon]

Re: Consumer Redress for Misleading and Aggressive Practices

Not sure if this is the right forum so please move if not.

http://www.justice.gov.uk/lawcommission/1417.htm

274 pages long........... that ones more than an evenings reading!

[MIKE770]

Re: Consumer Redress for Misleading and Aggressive Practices

Bally Hell - good job a month or so to digest etc!

[Luminol]

Re: Consumer Redress for Misleading and Aggressive Practices

looks interesting, but quite a read

[leclerc]

Re: Consumer Redress for Misleading and Aggressive Practices

"1. The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (the
Regulations) prohibit misleading and aggressive trade practices. The Regulations
implemented a European directive, replacing 23 previous UK consumer
protection measures, including most of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968. They
are enforced mainly by the Office of Fair Trading and by trading standards
services.
2. Under current law, consumers do not have a right to compensation if a trader
breaches the Regulations. Instead consumers must rely on a variety of private
causes of action: some statutory, some based on case law. These are complex,
confusing and patchy.
3. This Consultation Paper aims to:
(1) simplify redress for misleading commercial practices;
(2) simplify redress for aggressive commercial practices; and
(3) fill gaps in protection, where a consumer is unable to gain redress for
serious breaches of the Regulations. "

The summary on page xiii

[pompeyfaith]

Re: Consumer Redress for Misleading and Aggressive Practices

274 pages long........... that ones more than an evenings reading!

Bally Hell - good job a month or so to digest etc!

Thought you all needed occupying for a few hrs lol :tinysmile_grin_t:

[Caspar]

Re: Consumer Redress for Misleading and Aggressive Practices

I don't know about others, but I have found CPUTR 2008 a very powerful piece of legislation when dealing with DCAs. It is complex, but is very well worth reading and digesting. There is a very long thread on it on CAG which I have dipped into but it does tend to waffle on a little at times. The regulations themselves are good reading.