Distance Selling in UK Law
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Proposed EC Directive on the distance selling of financial services
The European Commission has published a revised proposal for a European Parliament and Council directive to harmonise member states' rules on consumer protection in relation to the distance marketi...
- Book Review: EDirectives: Guide to European Union Law on E-Commerce — Commentary on the Directives on Distance Selling, Electronic Signatures, Electronic Commerce, Copyright and the Information Society and Data Protection
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Future legislation affecting financial services
The financial services industries is facing a number of important legal developments. The most publicised of these is the coming into force on 1st March, 2000 of the new Data Protection Act 1998. T...... ... include the pro-posed European Union Directive on the dis-tance selling of financial services to consumers and the various legislative provisions ... DISTANCE SELLING The rest of this paper considers another legislative change which ... ...
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Robust estimation of distance effects and sub‐optimality in mixed use buildings
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to investigate whether buyers and sellers appears to take distance to the capital business district (CBD) into account in their valuation for acquisition or dispos...... ... Theeffect of several distance measures on selling price is investigated for income properties with mixedresidential and commercial components – geometric distances, driving distance and time, and ... ...
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An integrated framework for recommendation systems in e‐commerce
The Internet has become a popular medium for information exchange and knowledge delivery. Several traditional social activities have moved to the Internet, such as distance learning, tele‐medical s...... ... of themerchant who sells the product);± price (the product selling price)..Site topology table:± product ID (the identification of ... ...
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Borderline cases.
... ... a requirement to register and charge VAT at local rates, if distance selling thresholds are exceeded. The thresholds are either 35,000 ECU or ... ...
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Financial services regulation and the Internet
The great attractions of the Internet are its flexibility and its international reach and, some might say, its anarchic nature. However, a company planning advertising or trading on the Internet mu...... ... -ence being addressed — advertisers asking for a commitment at a distance should make sure that their full address is given outside any response ... Promotion Code have additional provi-sions relating to distance selling. These pro-vide, inter alia, that: — advertisements should state the ... ...
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HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH ON INTERNATIONAL CONSUMER LAW. Ed by Geraint Howells, Iain Ramsay and Thomas Wilhelmsson with David Kraft Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (www.e-elgar.co.uk), Research Handbooks in International Law, 2010. ix + 592 pp. ISBN 9781847201287. £175.
... ... Accordingly, European directives such as the Distance Selling Directive, the E-Commerce Directive, and the Unfair Commercial ... ...
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Will the imaginary active consumers please stand up? Case note to Walbusch Walter Busch: Case C-430/17 Walbusch Walter Busch GmbH & Co. KG v. Zentrale zur Bekämpfung unlauteren Wettbewerbs Frankfurt am Main eV, EU:C:2019:47
The questions posed to the Court of Justice of the EU in the recent case of Walbusch Walter Busch asked what qualifies as the means of communication with a limited space or time to display the info...... ... 6 and 8 of the Consumer Rights Directive (CRD)1oblige traders selling their goods at adistance to transparently provide specific information to ... aims to counterbalance the disadvantagethat consumers suffer in distance selling contracts, of not being able to see and evaluate the ... ...
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Property stigma: wind farms are just the latest fashion
Purpose: The Government's aim to curb CO2 emissions from energy production has resulted in the growth of a new environmental feature; the wind turbine. Whilst this may help tackle climate change, t...... ... distance from a windfarm, and value. However, the data were insufficiently ... is sound, the available data werelimited to house type and selling price, and therefore not sufficiently detailed to highlight any ... ...
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