Consumer Protection in UK Law

  • Three Rivers District Council v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No. 3)
    • House of Lords
    • 22 Marzo 2001
    ... ... it did not dispute that one of the Directive's purposes was the protection of depositors. Auld L.J., at p. 110H, put the matter in this way: ... 48 the court held that there had to be a high level of consumer protection concomitantly with the right of establishment and the freedom ... ...
  • Tesco Supermarkets Ltd v Nattrass
    • House of Lords
    • 31 Marzo 1971
    ... ... For the protection of purchasers or consumers Parliament in many cases made it an offence for ... the Merchandise Marks Acts, 1887 to 1953, is concerned with consumer protection. It is a criminal statute and creates a number of offences of ... ...
  • Murphy v Brentwood District Council
    • House of Lords
    • 26 Julio 1990
    ... ... manufactured -product should be intended to reach the injured consumer in the same state as that in which it was put up with no reasonable ... to be said for the view that in what is essentially a consumer protection field, as was observed by Lord Bridge of Harwich in D. & F. Estates , at ... ...
  • Cavendish Square Holding BV v Talal El Makdessi; ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis
    • Supreme Court
    • 04 Noviembre 2015
    ... ... second appeal, ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis , raises the issue at a consumer level, and it also raises a separate issue under the Unfair Terms in ... (pp 90–91) to the critical importance to Dunlop of the protection of their brand, reputation and goodwill, and their authorised distribution ... ...
  • R (Khatun and Others) v Newham London Borough Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 Febrero 2004
    ... ... In summary the question was whether the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 ("the Regulations") and Council Directive ... in paragraph 1 concerning health, safety, environmental protection and consumer protection, will take as a base a high level of protection, ... ...
  • Wilson v First County Trust Ltd (No 2)
    • House of Lords
    • 10 Julio 2003
    ... ... was a regulated agreement for the purposes of section 8 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974. A regulated agreement is not properly executed unless the ... on enforcement of a regulated agreement are for the protection of borrowers. They do not deprive a regulated agreement of all legal ... ...
  • National Westminster Bank Plc v Morgan
    • House of Lords
    • 07 Marzo 1985
    ... ... relieve against the mischief: for example, the hire-purchase and consumer protection legislation, of which the Supply of Goods (Implied Terms) Act ... ...
  • D & F Estates Ltd v Church Commissioners for England
    • House of Lords
    • 14 Julio 1988
    ... ... for breach of statutory duty by any person for whose benefit or protection the byelaw was made. So I do not think that there is any basis here for ... duty owed by a manufacturer of goods to their ultimate user or consumer, and can be summarised in this way: a person who manufactures goods which ... ...
  • R v Johnstone (Robert Alexander)
    • House of Lords
    • 22 Mayo 2003
    ... ... ] RPC 281 , 291, per Jacob J, Philips Electronics NV v Remington Consumer Products [1998] RPC 283 , 311-312, per Jacob J, and in the Court of ... The 1994 Act provides for two separate regimes for the protection of trade marks and consumers. One regime is concerned with civil ... ...
  • Esure Insurance Ltd v Direct Line Insurance Plc
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 Julio 2008
    ... ... of the two marks and (b) from the standpoint of the average consumer (as to (b), see SABEL , Case C-251/95 [1997] ECR 1–6191 ) ... 5 ... protection. By a “soup” approach, Mr Mellor means that every factor is thrown ... ...
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