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Consumer Protection and the Criminal Law: Law, Theory and Policy in the U. K. »

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Authors: Peter Cartwright
ISBN-13: 9780521590808, ISBN-10: 0521590809
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: October 2007
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Peter Cartwright

Peter Cartwright is a lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham. He specialises in consumer protection, criminal law and banking regulation. His publications include Consumer Protection in Financial Services (Kluwer 1999) as well as numerous articles.

Book Synopsis

Consumer protection, trade descriptions, product safety, and how far UK law holds traders responsible.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1Consumer protection rationales1
2Techniques of regulation40
3The role of criminal sanctions in consumer protection63
4The use of the criminal law87
5Consumers and safety: the protection of physical integrity126
6The protection of economic interests156
7The enforcement of regulatory consumer law212
8Conclusions244
Index250

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