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Consumer Law
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ContractsProf Blog
C3 Conference in Canada (Doesn’t that Make It C4?)
Conference on Contract, Consumer, and Commercial Law (C3)The Ascension of Contract: Understanding the Crucial Role of Contractual Ordering and of Consumer and Commercial Transactions in the Continuously Evolving Landscape of…
Allens Insights
Changing customer service levels: a lesson in consumer law risks
By Allens
On 21 February 2025, the Federal Court of Australia handed down its decision in Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Telstra Limited [2025] FCA 93. The Court found Telstra misled…
Latham.London
A New Era for Consumer Protection: The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act
By Kibret
An overhaul of the UK consumer law landscape is on the horizon, with the consumer law provisions of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 set to take effect…
Bill Madden's Blog
Medical: Class action pleadings & consumer law issue.
By Bill Madden
Lombardo v Dermatology and Cosmetic Surgery Services Pty Ltd (summary dismissal and pleadings) [2024] VSC 608 (Link to AUSTLII). Various pleadings and particulars issues were dealt with in this interlocutory…
Legal Advice Office Blog
Defective Car
By Eve
At the Legal Advice Office, we deal with Consumer Law and one of the main issues we deal with is the question of defective vehicles. In any particular week, these…
Bill Madden's Blog
Medical: Representative proceedings settlement approval.
By Bill Madden
Raad & Ors v The Cosmetic Institute Pty Limited & Ors [2024] NSWSC 650 (Link to Caselaw) The 12 plaintiffs were women who alleged that they have suffered personal injury arising…
Bright Law Blog
Case note: false or misleading representations about wealth products
In Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Master Wealth Control Pty Ltd [2024] FCA 344 the Federal Court of Australia decided that DG Institute breached the Australian Consumer Law by making…
Inside Class Actions
UK Opt-Out Class Actions for Non-Competition Claims back on Parliamentary Agenda
By Louise Freeman, Sinead McLaughlin, Alan Kenny
Opt-out collective actions (i.e. US-style class actions) can only be brought in the UK as competition law claims. Periodic proposals to legislate to expand this regime to consumer law claims…
Inside Global Tech
UK Opt-Out Class Actions for Non-Competition Claims back on Parliamentary Agenda
By Louise Freeman, Sinead McLaughlin, Alan Kenny
Opt-out collective actions (i.e. US-style class actions) can only be brought in the UK as competition law claims. Periodic proposals to legislate to expand this regime to consumer law claims…
Health Law Prof Blog
The Public Stakes of Consumer Law: The Environment, the Economy, Health, Disinformation, and Beyond
Rory Van Loo (Boston University), The Public Stakes of Consumer Law: The Environment, the Economy, Health, Disinformation, and Beyond, 107 Minn. L. Rev. (2023):Consumer law has a conflicted and narrow…