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This 8 page paper outlines the way in which consumer protection is granted by the law in England. The paper defines a consumer and then looks at a range of civil and criminal statutes and other tools which may be used for the protection of the consumer. The bibliography cites 14 sources.
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been through both statute and common law and has covered criminal and civil law as well as the law of contract and tort. It is not only in explicit terms
that there is consumer protection, it ,ay also be argued that the way the systems have developed, for example, the way fraud prosecution has been streamlined and actions protecting property
or enabling litigation, such as under the Misrepresentation Act 1967, the Theft Act 1968 and the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (as amended are all indirect supports for the protection of
the consumer (Cartwright, 2001). The wide range of the direct and indirect protections mean that the boundaries may be unclear in some aspects, with actions facilitated under several areas of
law, or unclear if actionable. It is also worth noting that the statutes that protect the consumer, may also be seen as protecting the honest traders (Cartwright, 2001). It may
be argued that the approach taken is to protect the consumer, but still retain a free market as argued by Friedman. Arguably, in a perfect market there would be no
need for consumer protection (Atiyah, 1981, Scherer, 1980). To consider how consumers are protected the first issue need to be the definition of a consumer. In 19589 when the
Molony Committee was set up in order to consider the way that consumer law should develop they came up with an interesting definition of a consumer "everybody all of the
time" (Cartwright, 2001). However, this is an unworkable and far to broad definition for the consideration of consumer law, and even the Molony Committee did not propose that this definition
should be adopted. However, even today the definition of a consumer in not university agreed upon. Generally a consumer is seen as an individual who is making a private
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