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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rickett, C. E. F., editor.

Telfer, Thomas G. W., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumer protection--Law and legislation.

Consumer protection.

Conflict of laws--Consumer protection.

Conflict of laws.

Commercial law.

Dispute resolution (Law).

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

System Details:

text file

PDF

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780511494833

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.