Consumer Law
Consumer law reform in Australia: Contemporary and Comparative Constructive Criticism
... were proposed along with the Bill), the regulator (the ACCC) can bring injunction proceedings that also seek further orders against corporations using such terms, in favour of those not party to the original proceedings. ...
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Broadening Consumer Law: Competition, Protection, and Distribution
... that consumer law is not a large-scale tool for redistribution and ...ignore consumer law or argue against action to justify their ...in consumer law enforcement would ...
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Irish consumer law: asserting a domestic agenda
... However, when Irish consumers were actually tested, the findings evidenced significant deficiencies in knowledge. Of particular relevance to the discussion in this article are the seven questions which seek to identify ...
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The New Australian Consumer Law: What About Consumer ADR?
... of consumer disputes, due in part to jurisdiction over consumer affairs being shared between federal and state ...of consumer law nation-wide, Australian politicians and officials should not ...
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UNITED STATES CONSUMER LAW ATTORNEY FEE SURVEY REPORT
... The Average Hourly Rates by Years in Practice Tables by Region presents an analysis of the impact that years in practice in Consumer Law has on the average attorney hourly rate. Each region has its own ...
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UNITED STATES CONSUMER LAW ATTORNEY FEE SURVEY REPORT
... Section 6 contains data for 29 selected states and the District of Columbia. These selections were made based chiefly on the basis of their larger population count. Together these 30 high-population areas represent 81.2% ...
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Consumer Law, Class Actions, and the Common Law
... common law rules over consumer law ...full-fledged consumer law regime might, at a highly abstract and theoretical level, be shown to be just as efficient as an equally stylized common ...
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and consumer law
... In consumer transactions, unfair practices are widespread. The existing law is still founded on the principle known as caveat emptor - meaning ‘let the buyer ...untrained consumer is no match for the ...
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Electrical and whitegoods An industry guide to the Australian Consumer Law
... a consumer wants to return a product with an alleged minor fault for repair or replacement, the shipping/postage costs will be at the consumer’s expense, whether or not the cost is ...
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Asian seminar on consumer law Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
... It is a historical fact that the Contracts Act 1950 which was based on the Indian Contract Act 1872 is a product of 19th century social, economic, political and philosophical influences [r] ...
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Australian Consumer Law: Defects, Warranties and Unfair Contracts
... reasonable consumer ‘must be taken to expect that there may well be some matters which will require remedy’: Norton v Hervey Motors Ltd [1996] DCR 427 at ...a consumer is purchasing certain types of ...
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Social justice in EU financial consumer law
... social justice measures within its consumer protection agenda. This is however only a possible interpretation, and one that remains deeply hidden. In order to gain or increase the trust of consumers, the EU ...
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John Rao, Staff Attorney, National Consumer Law Center Diane Thompson, of counsel, National Consumer Law Center
... – Former servicer (transferor) must notify borrower in writing 15 days before effective date of transfer – New servicer (transferee) must provide identical. notice to borrower not more [r] ...
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Chapter 10: Consumer Law
... 11 Acts of 1972, c.. Nevertheless, such credit transactions are within the purview of both the federal and state truth-in-Iending laws,17 To alleviate the problem f[r] ...
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Chapter 14: Consumer Law
... the term "general health supplies, care, social, rehabilitative, or educa- tional services and accommodations" shall not include any services and accommodations rates of[r] ...
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Chapter 2: Consumer Law
... tal suffering because of unfair or deceptive collection techniques can expect to receive only a narrow degree of relief from the oppressive situation. While the ment[r] ...
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Chapter 12: Consumer Law
... Consumer advocates have taken great pride in the fact that the Mas- sachusetts law affords greater protection to consumers than its federal counterpart} Nevertheless, compliance dif[r] ...
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Chapter 12: Consumer Law
... The Supreme Judicial Court rejeoted the defendant's appeal, finding that its entire theory, based as it was on arguments relevant to common law, was without merit [r] ...
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Chapter 15: Consumer Law
... tant differences between the state and federal statutes and regulations re- main.' Although many of the changes to chapter 140C contained in chapter 1400 and the regulations there[r] ...
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Chapter 9: Consumer Law
... lations promulgated by the Federal Reserve Board provide: "A State, through its Governor, Attorney General, or other appropriate official having primary enforceme[r] ...
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