ABSTRACT

In Part 1 of the book, the nature of the contracts used for the domestic supply of goods was examined. Part 2 is concerned with the different types of consumer protection that are available even before the parties start to negotiate a particular transaction for the domestic supply of goods. Chapter 3 deals with four topics: first, it outlines the various types of consumer watchdog (see post, paras 3.02-08); secondly, it looks at the statutory and voluntary control of supplies of goods to consumers (see post, paras 3.09-14); thirdly, it outlines the means of achieving consumer redress (see post, paras 3.15-25); and fourthly, it summarises the controls on the power of traders to accumulate personal information about consumers (see post, paras 3.26-28).