Subjects:

Consumer Law

Contents:

Part 1: The Nature of the Contracts for the Supply of Goods

1. Introduction

2. Subject-Matter of the Supply Contract: Goods and Price

Part 2: Consumer Protection

3. Regulation of Business

4. Consumer Protection and the Criminal Law

5. Consumer Protection and Instalment Credit

6. Licensing

7. Moneylending

Part 3: Negotiating Supply Contracts

8. Seeking Business

9. Formalities of the Agreement

10. Formation of the Agreement

Part 4: The Contents of a Contract for the Supply of Goods

11. Contractual Terms

12. Undertakings as to Title

13. Undertakings as to Quantity and Quality

14. Undertakings as to Fitness and Satisfactory Quality

15. Other Implied Terms and Obligations

16. Financed Transactions

17. Product Liability

18. Exclusions and Disclaimers

Part 5: The Conveyance in Supply Contracts

19. The Effects of the Contract

20: The Passing of Property

21. The Transfer of Title

22. Risk and Impossibility

Part 6: The Price in Sale and Hire Purchase Contracts

23. Delivery and Possession

24. The Unpaid Supplier's Possessory Rights

25. Security for the Price

Part 7: Discharge, Enforcement and Remedies

26. Discharge of Contractual Obligations

27. Remedies of the Supplier: 'Creditor or Owner'

28. Enforcement by Public Authorities

29. Remedies of the Transferee: 'debtor or hirer'

Consumer sales law involves the law relating to the supply of goods to consumers, which has become a very significant part of the UK economy in the last fifty years. Legally, it has become unnecessarily complicated because of the many strands of the law applicable. Much of this can be traced to the attraction consumer protection exerts over politicians, the last five years seeing an upheaval in consumer credit law, embodied in numerous heavyweight statutory instruments and a major new Consumer Credit Act in 2006.

This book attempts to equip the reader with an idea of how this fast-changing subject is likely to develop through the inclusion of both British and European reform proposals which seem likely to take place at publication.