Blackstone's Guide to Consumer Sales and Associated Guarantees Blackstone's Guide Series

Blackstone's Guide to Consumer Sales and Associated Guarantees provides a practical guide to the important new Guarantees Directive and its implementation. The Directive affects (a) consumers' rights and remedies against the seller where they purchase defective goods, and (b) the enforcement of manufacturers' guarantees. The book deals with the relationship and interaction of these new rights with the existing sale of goods law. Written by leading experts in the field, the Guide is both clear and comprehensive in its coverage. It also contains the full text of relevant legislation including the Sale of Goods Act as amended and the EC Directive on Sale of Consumer Goods and Associated Guarantees.

1: Introduction, 2: Scope and definitions, 3: Consumers' rights under the new law, 4: Remedies under the new law, 5: Exclusions and contracting out, 6: Third party and guarantee rights, 7: 'Commercial guarantees', 8: Manufacturers' liability, 9: The position of retailers, Appendices, Operative provisions of the 2002 Regulations, Sale of Goods Act 1979 (SoGA), Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 (SGSA), Supply of Goods (Implied Terms) Act 1973, Unfair Contract Terms Act (UCTA) provisions

Robert Bradgate read law at Cambridge and entered legal practice in 1980, specializing in Commercial Law and Litigation. He began lecturing in 1984 and is now Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Hull. Christian Twigg-Flesner was born and educated in Germany. He is Senior Lecturer in Private Law at the University of Hull.