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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450549203321

Titolo

International perspectives on consumers' access to justice / / edited by Charles E.F. Rickett and Thomas G.W. Telfer [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003

ISBN

1-107-13730-6

1-280-43665-4

0-511-17914-6

1-139-14903-2

0-511-06222-2

0-511-05589-7

0-511-32607-6

0-511-49483-1

0-511-07068-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 418 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

343.07/1

Soggetti

Consumer protection - Law and legislation

Conflict of laws - Consumer protection

Commercial law

Dispute resolution (Law)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Consumers' access to justice : an introduction / Charles E.F. Rickett, Thomas G.W. Telfer -- Consumer redress and access to justice / Iain Ramsay -- Consumer access to justice in common law countries : a survey of the issues from a law and economics perspective / Anthony J. Duggan -- Rethinking consumer protection policy / Michael J. Trebilock -- Standard form contracts in Europe and North America : one hundred years of unfair terms / Leone Niglia -- BSE, CJD, mass infections and the 3rd US restatement / Jane Stapleton -- Services of general interest and European private law / Thomas Wilhelmsson -- The new Financial Ombudsman Service in the United Kingdom : has the second generation got it right / Rhoda James, Philip Morris -- Economic appraisals of



rulemaking in the new society : why, how, and what does it mean : the challenge for the consumer /Jenny Hamilton, Mik Wisniewski -- Access to the discharge in Canadian bankruptcy law and the new role of surplus income : a historical perspective / Thomas G.W. Telfer -- The death of consumer bankruptcy in the United States / Charles Jordan Tabb -- Privatisation and power : dispute resolution for the Internet / Elizabeth G. Thornburg -- Armageddon through aggregation : the use and abuse of class actions in international dispute resolution / Richard O. Faulk -- Adapting international private law rules for electronic consumer contracts / Lorna E. Gillies / Waving goodbye to conflict of laws : recent developments in European Union consumer law / Axel Halfmeier.

Sommario/riassunto

Consumer protection law in the age of globalisation poses new challenges for policy-makers. This book highlights the difficulties of framing regulatory responses to the problem of consumers' access to justice in the new international economy. The growth of international consumer transactions in the wake of technological change and the globalisation of markets suggests that governments can no longer develop consumer protection law in isolation from the international legal arena. Leading scholars consider the broader theme of access to justice from socio-legal, law and economics perspectives. Topics include standard form contracts, the legal challenges posed by mass infections (such as mad-cow disease and CJD), ombudsman schemes, class actions, alternative dispute resolution, consumer bankruptcy, conflict of laws, and cross-border transactions. This book demonstrates that advancing and achieving access to justice for consumers proves to be a challenging, and sometimes elusive, task.