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Enforcing Consumer Protection Laws
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2010
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Abstract
This chapter adopts a broad conception of enforcement so as to support an analysis and
comparison of the various different mechanisms through which the entitlements and
responsibilities ascribed by consumer laws may be vindicated. I start by evaluating the
different agents of enforcement for consumer law. Whilst it is right to consider the full
array of different agents of enforcement, including consumers, businesses, public agencies
and NGOs, it is inevitable that consumer law enforcement is chiefly associated with public
agencies of the kind widely established in the second half of the twentieth century.
Considering different styles of enforcement in consumer law the chief focus in this chapter
is on public agencies. I conclude by considering the claim that consumer law entered a
‘post-interventionist’ phase in the 1980s and consider the extent to which the implications
of this trend for enforcement have been or may be realised.
Type of Material
Book Chapter
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Copyright (Published Version)
2010 Edward Elgar Publishing
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
Part of
Howells, G., Ramsay, I and Wilhelmsson, T. (eds.). Handbook of Research on International Consumer Law
ISBN
9781847201287
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