Blackstone's Guide to the Consumer Credit ACT 2006

Neuausgabe 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-920526-4
Verlag: Sinauer Associates Is an Imprint of Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

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The Department of Trade and Industry has been conducting a major revision of consumer credit law over the past few years. Its proposals on substantial changes to existing law were contained in its White Paper published in December 2003: Fair, Clear and Competitive - The Consumer Credit Market in the 21st Century. Since then, this programme has been implemented by a series of new statutory instruments and a major new Consumer Credit Act which runs to 70 sections and revolutionises the
present law and practice of consumer credit. The new Act principally amends the Consumer Credit Act 1974, which is the statute governing the licensing of, and other controls on, traders concerned with the provision of credit or the supply of goods on hire or hire-purchase to individuals. Significant changes
brought in by the new Act include the following;

· The re-definition of "consumers" whose agreements are to be regulated by the Act and financial ceilings on consumer credit and hire agreements removed
· The consequences of trading without a license are to be made more severe and the whole process of licensing to be modernised
· Consumer credit is to be brought within the remit of the Financial Ombudsman

This Guide covers all of these new provisions, together with the growing importance of the internet and electronic technology to this area of the law, whilst also placing the new Act in the context of what has gone before. The commentary in the Guide is structured in a clear and logical way, thus enabling readers to quickly access the information they require.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mawrey, Richard

Mawrey QC, Richard

Riley-Smith, Toby

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensfinanzen Finanzierung, Investition, Leasing
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Unternehmensfinanzierung

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Mawrey QC is an advocate and legal scholar of 40 years experience who has been in practice at Henderson Chambers since 1965. He was involved in a very wide range of consumer credit law since before the 1974 Consumer Credit Act was passed, and helped to campaign for the full implementation of the Act in the early 1980s. He has edited Bullen Leake and Jacob's Precedents of Pleadings and Butterworths' Consumer Credit Legislation; and currently
edits the Business Law section of Butterworths' Civil Court Precedents.

Toby Riley-Smith (called 1995) is based at Henderson Chambers and specialises in the inter-related fields of commercial and consumer law and product liability fields. He advises consumers and finance houses on non-contentious and contentious aspects of the 1974 Act, and is a contributing editor to both Goode's Consumer Credit Law and Practice, one of the most authoritative texts on the subject, and Halsbury's Laws - Practice and Procedure.