The work is divided into 2 parts. First part deals with general level of consumer protection. It specifies consumers discretions and duties, analyses concrete laws that govern consumer protection and institutional reinsurance of consumer protecion in the Czech Republic. The second part analyses situation in foodstuff area, it warns against traps of the market and underline quality brands, which can make consumer's choice easier.

by David Yeung Fong. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-119). / Executive Summary --- p.ii / Table of Contents --- p.iii / List of Illustrations --- p.vii / Acknowledgment --- p.viii / Chapter Chapter I - --- Introduction --- p.1 / Concepts of Expert Systems --- p.1 / Definition --- p.1 / Components of Expert Systems --- p.3 / Knowledge Acquisition --- p.4 / Knowledge Representation --- p.6 / Inference Engine --- p.8 / Benefits of Expert Systems --- p.9 / Recent Development --- p.10 / Expert Systems in Law --- p.11 / Applications --- p.11 / Problems of Expert Systems with Case Law --- p.12 / Translation of cases --- p.12 / Representation of cases --- p.12 / Interpretation --- p.13 / Policy considerations --- p.13 / Reasoning with precedent --- p.14 / Doctrine of precedent --- p.14 / Rule Model --- p.15 / Induction --- p.15 / Alternative approach to precedent --- p.16 / Product/Service Liability in Hong Kong --- p.17 / Definition --- p.17 / Law --- p.18 / Significance to Management --- p.19 / Chapter Chapter II - --- Research Definition --- p.21 / Research Goal --- p.21 / Research Objective --- p.21 / Scope of the Project --- p.21 / Chapter Chapter III - --- Research Methodology --- p.23 / Knowledge Acquisition --- p.23 / Brief Outline of the rules --- p.24 / Knowledge Representation --- p.24 / Expert System Development Tools for the project --- p.25 / XXXPERT --- p.25 / Imp shell --- p.26 / Turbo Prolog --- p.26 / Chapter Chapter IV - --- Research Limitation --- p.28 / Chapter Chapter V - --- System Configuration & Analysis --- p.29 / System Design --- p.29 / Main Module --- p.29 / Case Screening Module --- p.29 / Duty of Care Module --- p.30 / Breach of Duty Module --- p.30 / Causation Module --- p.30 / Remoteness of Damage Module --- p.31 / Defendant's Defense Module --- p.31 / Reference Cases Module --- p.31 / Help Module --- p.31 / Minimum System Requirements --- p.32 / System Testing --- p.32 / Chapter Chapter VI - --- Recommendations --- p.33 / Appendix A : Inference Tree --- p.34 / Appendix B: Cases Referenced in the Expert System --- p.48 / Appendix C: Program Listing --- p.64 / Tort.pro --- p.64 / Tdoms.pro --- p.67 / Status.pro --- p.68 / Tpreds.pro --- p.68 / Def.pro --- p.73 / Func.pro --- p.75 / Refcases.pro --- p.79 / Watstage.pro --- p.90 / Screen.pro --- p.92 / Duty.pro --- p.95 / "Breach, pro" --- p.100 / Causatio.pro --- p.106 / Remote.pro --- p.111 / Defense.pro --- p.111 / Appendix D: Bibliography --- p.118

Univ., Diss.--Köln, 2006. / Literaturverz. S. XIX - XLII.

This dissertation uses the latest development in consumer protection law in Vietnam (the adoption of the Consumer Protection Law of 2010 to regulate transactions between consumers and traders) to test key claims in competing legal transplantation theories. This research investigates comparative law debates about the legitimacy, usefulness and possibility of legal transplantation in law reform in developing and transitional countries. Alan Watson and his proponents believe strongly in the possibility of legal transplants, but fail to provide a clear and concrete methodology for producing effective and efficient laws. On the other hand, Robert Seidman and Ann Seidman openly reject the legitimacy of legal transplants, but offer a comprehensive methodology for effectively conducting law reform projects. They believe that, by following a problem-solving institutionalist legislative theory, legal drafters and law-makers in charge of law reform projects can easily produce effective and efficient laws. This dissertation argues that the nature of the reform of laws regulating consumer transactions in Vietnam is much more complex than Watson’s theory imagines. It also shows that, although the reception of foreign legal models is part of this law reform project, past legal transplants as well as the local law-making culture may filter or even inhibit the reception of foreign legal solutions. This research also reveals that current consumer law reform in Vietnam tends to follow the problem-solving approach, although it deviates somewhat from the legislative methodology proposed by the Seidmans. This dissertation attempts to clarify these deviations and explain the reasons for them. / Graduate

The diploma thesis deals with electronic commerce. The theoretical part of this work is focused on basic aspects of consumer's protection, consumer organisations and institutions providing advice and information and the rights and obligations of consumers and sellers. It describes the history and current situation of e-commerce, advantages and disadvantages, circumvention of the law when buying over the internet and specific casework. The diploma thesis also briefly informs of marketing research. In the practical part there is a questionnaire survey applied, examining the issue of electronic commerce, experiences of buying over the internet and knowledge of consumer rights. The aim of the research is to summarize collected information that is complemented by measures designed to reduce the negative impacts.

Social regulation, as applied specifically to the telecommunications sector, is a new phenomenon in most countries. It was only in the 1960s, with the establishment of regulatory agencies, that social regulation became important. The regulators are mandated by their country’s legislative and regulatory frameworks to meet social objectives. This study examined the extent to which ICASA protects consumers as it is mandated to do by the Electronic Communications Act 36 of 2005. The study found that ICASA has adopted mechanisms of protecting consumers, namely by conducting awareness campaigns, road shows and workshops in all the nine provinces of South Africa in order to educate and inform consumers about the procedures of lodging complaints and to make them aware of their rights. However, despite ICASA’s endeavours to ensure consumer protection, most consumers are neither aware of their rights and how to efficiently exercise them nor the procedures of lodging complaints. ICASA protects consumers to a reasonable extent but it can do more when the enduser and subscriber service charter regulations are finalised. / Communication Science / M. A. (International Communication)

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1978 S73 / Master of Science

Consumer credit is seen as a matter of course and an essential precondition enabling the individual consumer to allocate in a smooth manner his or her income to varying expenses, and allowing the growth-rate to increase in society. The consumer community using different forms of credit has increased and includes today a diversity of social groups such as the elderly, children, the rich and the poor. Credit is not just a good thing, however, as it involves risks of failing to fulfill the credit contract obligations. The point of departure for the thesis is that over-indebtedness constitutes a problem which society wishes to solve because it causes considerable difficulties for both individuals and society as a whole. Numerous rules govern loans in Sweden, from the moment the consumer contemplates entering into a credit contract to the moment when the consumer is too indebted to repay the debt when due and must seek debt-repayment-plan modification. The thesis examines and analyses which consumer protections against overindebtedness emerge from these rules. The study shows that the regulatory measures adopted in recent years are similar to each other and mostly consist of rules protecting the consumer before a credit contract is concluded. Although the purpose of other existing rules addressing the last phase of the credit process is to protect the consumer who miscalculated his or her future economic circumstances, the protection is overall weak. In fact some of the rules in the last phase of the credit process can contribute to aggravating the consumer’s economic situation.

Electronic commerce was expected to grow exponentially, but the actual rate of growth in recent years has been disappointing. Recent surveys of perceptions of the development of electronic commerce clearly focus our attention on the perception and fear of computer crime as the major cause of this disappointing growth pattern. The thesis critiques existing private law solutions to this problem and argues from a normative theory on “the commons” for the application of new public law enforcement solutions in the public trust, sanctions, and public coproduction of order. The thesis argues that given the failures of existing private law solutions to the problem, these public law enforcement solutions should be more effective, efficient, and more satisfactory.

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