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Full-Text Articles in Consumer Protection Law
Viewing Unconscionability Through A Market Lens, David Gilo, Ariel Porat
Viewing Unconscionability Through A Market Lens, David Gilo, Ariel Porat
William & Mary Law Review
This Article calls for a move to a new phase in courts’ attitudes toward consumer contracts. Currently, courts applying the unconscionability doctrine to consumer contracts focus on the characteristics of the parties and the transaction. We suggest that rather than examining each consumer contract in isolation, courts should inquire whether there is competition, or potential competition, over contracts in the supplier’s market. As we show, competition over contracts is different from competition over products or services. In order to assess the degree of competition, or potential competition, over contracts, courts should look at the particular features of the supplier’s market …
The Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Ranganath Vadapalli Vg.
The Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Ranganath Vadapalli Vg.
Dr. V.G.Ranganath
In India, the consumer movement began to develop in the 1960s though it took its shape in the late 1980’s. In 1982, an ‘Asian Seminar in Consumer Protection’ was organized in schools and colleges, in which 300 delegates from all the Asian Countries participated. Taking this landmark consumer movement into consideration, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi included Consumer Protection as the 17th programme and it was put on the national agenda. For the first time, the need to create a statute for the protection of the consumers was felt.