Table of Contents

Perspectives; Institutions and Policies of Consumer Protection; Consumer Redress; The Law of Contract as a Means of Consumer Protection - General Issues; Tort Law and Principles of the Law of Restitution as a Means of Consumer Protection; Product Quality; Product Safety and the Civil Law; defective Consumer Services; Holiday Law; Consumer Insurance; Consumer Finance; Exemption Clauses and Other Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts; The Criminal Law as a means of Consumer Protection; Product Quality and Safety Under the Criminal Law; Food Law; Regulation of Marketing, Advertising and Sales Promotion Practices; Trade Descriptions in Relation to Goods; Misdescriptions of Services and Property; Misleading Price Indications; Sales Promotion.

About the Author

David Oughton is Professor of Commercial Law at De Montfort University and is the author of books and articles on consumer law obligations, limitations of actions, the law of contract and the law of tort. John Lowry is a Reader in Law at the University of Warwick. He is also the co-author of books on insurance law ad limitations of actions and has written widely in domestic and international law journals on aspects of company law, fiduciary obligations and the law of tort.