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The Law provides adequate protection for online consumers. Discuss
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The Law provides adequate protection for online consumers. Discuss The Distance Selling Directive (Dir 97/7/EC) was implemented into UK law as The Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 and came into force on October 2001,1 for the protection of consumers in respect of distance contracts and to enhance consumer confidence in distance sales. To establish the full extent of protection that the Regulations provide an array of UK legislation will first be examined prior to an assessment of the Regulatons itself. At common law the position is that once parties have entered into a contract, they are bound to complete their bargain on the terms stated, unless the contract has been entered into as a result of mistake2, Duress3, Illegality4 or as a consequence of misrepresentation. 5 S.13 of The Sale of Goods Act 1979 (SOGA) holds that in contract's for the sale of goods by description, there...
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