International perspectives on consumers' access to justice / edited by Charles E.F. Rickett and Thomas G.W. Telfer.
2003
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Title
International perspectives on consumers' access to justice / edited by Charles E.F. Rickett and Thomas G.W. Telfer.
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Description
1 online resource (xxii, 418 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Summary
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.
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Cambridge Core.
Language
English
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9780511494833 ebook
9780521824323 (hardback)
9780521824323 (hardback)
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