ABSTRACT

Fully updated and revised, this comprehensive and informative textbook provides readers with an overview of current consumer sales law and equips them with a view of how this fast-changing subject has, and will continue to develop through the inclusion of new reform proposals.

This book analyzes the interaction of consumer sales law with politics, the appeal of consumer protection to politicians and the influence of the European Union and the EU Directives. It also discusses the removal of consumer sales law from its traditional realm of legal professionals to consumer and debt advisors and public officials with the power to seek injunctions to protect consumers. In addition to this, it:

  • fully integrates both the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive 2005 and the Consumer Credit Act 2006 into the basic 1974 Act
  • explains how the sale of Goods Act 1979 has been modified by the 1999 Directive
  • combines the public protection of consumers under the Enterprise Act 2002 (e.g. Office of Fair Trading)
  • is supplemented by comprehensive e-updates on its Companion Website, keeping the content current between editions.

Written by an author with forty years experience of teaching sales and finance law to undergraduates, this textbook is an essential tool for all undergraduates studying commercial and consumer sales law.

chapter Chapter 1|31 pages

Introduction

chapter Chapter 3|47 pages

Regulation of Business

chapter Chapter 4|53 pages

Consumer Protection and the Criminal Law

chapter Chapter 5|51 pages

Consumer Protection and Instalment Credit

chapter Chapter 6|34 pages

Licensing

chapter Chapter 7|30 pages

Moneylending

chapter Chapter 8|58 pages

Seeking Business

chapter Chapter 9|26 pages

Formalities of the Agreement

chapter Chapter 10|44 pages

Formation of the Agreement

chapter Chapter 11|37 pages

Contractual Terms

chapter Chapter 12|20 pages

Undertakings as to Title

chapter Chapter 13|15 pages

Undertakings as to Quantity and Quality

chapter Chapter 14|32 pages

Undertakings as to Fitness and Satisfactory Quality

chapter Chapter 15|20 pages

Other Implied Terms, Transactions and Obligations

chapter Chapter 16|23 pages

Financed Transactions

chapter Chapter 17|37 pages

Product Liability 1

chapter Chapter 18|34 pages

Exclusions and Disclaimers

chapter Chapter 19|29 pages

The Effects of The Contract

chapter Chapter 20|29 pages

The Passing of Property

chapter Chapter 21|42 pages

Transfer of Title

chapter Chapter 22|18 pages

Risk and Impossibility

chapter Chapter 23|26 pages

Delivery and Payment

chapter Chapter 24|44 pages

Possession and Repossession by the Supplier

chapter Chapter 25|32 pages

Security For Performance

chapter Chapter 26|32 pages

Discharge of Contractual Obligations

chapter Chapter 27|45 pages

Remedies of the Supplier—‘Creditor or Owner'

chapter Chapter 28|26 pages

Enforcement by Public Authorities

chapter Chapter 29|47 pages

Remedies of the Transferee—‘Debtor or Hirer'