Consumer Law

[Vivkins3]

I understand that in Consumer Law, ambiguity in a contract has to be interpreted by a Court in favour of the consumer. Please could somebody give me the specific Act and section (reference number)?

[FrogNog]

Does this help?
http://www.alway-associates.co.uk/legal-update/article.asp?id=128

[Vivkins3]

Thanks - I have already seen that article but what I was hoping for was that somebody could say "It is section xxx of the "Consumer Law" sub-section xxx(x). :-)

[Peter Pedant]

If you are doing contract law by yourself for a court case, then you need to start at p1 of any textbook with 'contract' in it and read the whole lot.

The contra proferentem rule is used when there is ambiguity and apparently its use is straightforward.

The big thing is that the parties may not agree there is ambiguity in which case one party will resist the use of the rule.

and finally contract/consumer law is governed a lot by previous cases which take the place of statute - hence there may be consumer law s ( x) subsection (y) but a case instead....

hence the need to read a textbook on this to get a feel of the subject

anyway

http://www.e-lawresources.co.uk/Unfair-terms---regulation-by-common-law.php

gives quite a nice overall view and the blue bits are clickable and give the cases the statements are based on

[Vivkins3]

That's really useful - thanks very much for taking the time to reply.