This is an authoritative and comprehensive guide for everyone concerned with the implementation of UK trading standards law. The book covers the full range of the work undertaken by trading standards officers in local authorities. The user-friendly text provides clear and exhaustive analysis of the law, including case law and their application, wording of the statutory provision, plus authoritative commentary and analysis of the practical issues. This second edition covers all recent developments in UK trading standards, with informed commentary on new legislation and case law, and includes: full analysis of the UK's Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008; comprehensive intellectual property case law updates; coverage extending to Scotland; and new chapters on animal welfare, food, and environmental trading standards.

Trading Standards: Law and Practice

Gumpert, Benjamin

Kirk, Jonathan

Law Practice

Jordans Pub

This book introduces a new regime for seizing assets that have been acquired through criminal conduct. The new Act unifies the confiscation regimes for drugs and other offenses; creates an Asset Recovery Agency; seeks to target lifestyle criminals; replaces and strengthens the existing investigation procedures, providing the crown court with a series of new powers to freeze assets and obtain information and disclosure; and creates new money laundering offenses, replacing existing legislation. This new book will provide an authoritative and accessible analysis of the new Act, with particular emphasis on the practical aspects of applying for and resisting confiscation orders. It will be accompanied by the full text of the legislation as it applies to England and Wales.

Proceeds of Crime Act 2002: A Practical Guide

Bojarski, Andrzej

This book is an authoritative and comprehensive guide for everyone involved in UK consumer and trading standards law. The user friendly text provides a clear and exhaustive analysis of the law, including UK case law and its application, working of the statutory provision, plus authoritative commentary and analysis of the practical issues. This fourth edition covers all recent legal developments, along with informed commentary on new UK legislation. The topics covered include: principles of regulatory law * civil proceedings * unfair commercial practices * unfair trading * fraud and money laundering * intellectual property * product safety * age-restricted sales * weights and measures * consumer credit * food standards and labeling * environmental trading standards * animal health and welfare. [Subject: Consumer Law]

Consumer and Trading Standards: Law and Practice

Lewin, Bryan

Business

Jordan Publishing Ltd

The products that are most often the subject of mis-selling claims are usually both complex and esoteric in nature. This complexity is reflected in the law, regulation and case law that applies to these products. Nowhere is this more true than in the heavily regulated financial services sector. This accessible book is designed to provide a clear and practical guide to claims involving the mis-selling of financial products.
 Key features include:
<ul>
<li>Clear and concise analysis on the law relating to the mis-selling of regulated financial services products</li>
<li>Overview of the UK and European regulatory framework governing the sale of financial products and with particular focus on five key product types: credit, mortgages, interest rate hedging products, insurance, and collective investment schemes</li>
<li>Practical information on pleading, and defending claims of mis-selling including the various causes of action and limitation periods</li>
<li>Summary of case law which has emerged from sector specific issues and mis-selling 'scandals'. </li>
</ul>
 Providing a practical grounding to the topics at hand, this book will be of use to practising lawyers and in-house counsel working within the financial services industry. Academics who are researching within the fields of financial services law or consumer protection will also find this to be an informative text.

Mis-Selling Financial Services (Elgar Financial Law and Practice series)

Business & Money

Samuels, Thomas

Finch, Lee

Industries

Edward Elgar Publishing

This second edition of Mis-Selling Financial Services is a practical guide to litigating claims arising from the mis-sale of financial products and services. It covers the history of 'mis-selling' litigation and provides an updated overview of the regulatory landscape and how such claims are formulated, as well as a thorough review of the key issues. The revised chapters give an in-depth analysis of the financial products which most commonly form the subject of such claims, from credit to collective investment schemes.\nKey Features:\nUpdated with new chapters on Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) and unfair terms 
Explanation of the key issues and considerations concerning mis-selling litigation 
Clear and concise analysis on the law relating to the mis-selling of regulated financial services products 
Overview of the UK and European regulatory framework governing the sale of financial products, with particular focus on five key product types: credit, mortgages, investments, insurance and collective investment schemes\nWith consideration of key legal and practical concepts and issues, this book is an essential read for practitioners and in-house counsel working in the financial services industry. Academics who are researching within the fields of financial services law or consumer protection will also find this to be an informative text.

Mis-selling Financial Services (Elgar Financial Law and Practice series)

This an authoritative and comprehensive guide for everyone involved in consumer and trading standards law in the UK. The book covers the full range of the work undertaken by consumer lawyers and trading standards officers in UK local authorities. Its user-friendly text provides a clear and exhaustive analysis of the law, including UK case law and its application, wording of the statutory provision, plus authoritative commentary and analysis of the practical issues. Formally known as Trading Standards: Law and Practice, this third edition covers all recent developments in consumer and trading standards law with informed commentary, including: ** the new consumer landscape: the abolition of the OFT and the creation of the new National Trading Standards Board to empower local authorities to enforce on a national basis ** an emphasis on EU law, with a new chapter on European consumer law and its interpretation ** dealing with the Unfair Terms Directive and Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations ** new European consumer regulations ** consumer credit covering civil enforcement ** fraud and money laundering ** overhaul of unfair commercial practices with new European authorities and developing case law

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Trading Standards: Law and Practice

Proceeds of Crime Act 2002: A Practical Guide

Consumer and Trading Standards: Law and Practice

Consumer and Trading Standards: Law and Practice

Mis-Selling Financial Services (Elgar Financial Law and Practice series)

Mis-selling Financial Services (Elgar Financial Law and Practice series)

Consumer and Trading Standards: Law and Practice