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Effective Use Of Non-Reliance Clauses: Satisfying Lowe V Lombank, Kee Yang Low
Effective Use Of Non-Reliance Clauses: Satisfying Lowe V Lombank, Kee Yang Low
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
The inclusion in contracts of “non-reliance” clauses, as a means of pre-empting assertions of misrepresentation, has become commonplace. The validity and effectiveness of such clauses is another matter. This article discusses how a non-reliance clause may act as an evidential estoppel.
Green Building Claims: What Theories Will A Plaintiff Pursue, Who Has Exposure, And A Proposal For Risk Mitigation, Darren Prum, Stephen Del Percio
Green Building Claims: What Theories Will A Plaintiff Pursue, Who Has Exposure, And A Proposal For Risk Mitigation, Darren Prum, Stephen Del Percio
Darren A. Prum
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Consumer Harm Acts? An Economic Analysis Of Private Actions Under State Consumer Protection Acts, Henry N. Butler, Jason S. Johnston
Consumer Harm Acts? An Economic Analysis Of Private Actions Under State Consumer Protection Acts, Henry N. Butler, Jason S. Johnston
Faculty Working Papers
State Consumer Protection Acts (CPAs) were adopted in the 1960s and 1970s to protect consumers from unfair and deceptive practices that would not be redressed but for the existence of the acts. In this sense, CPAs were designed to fill existing gaps in market, legal and regulatory protections of consumers. CPAs were designed to solve two simple economic problems: 1) individual consumers often do not have the incentive or means to pursue individual claims against mass marketers who engage in unfair and deceptive practices; and, 2) because of the difficulty of establishing elements of either common law fraud or breach …