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- A Local Authority’s Ability To Prosecute Outside Its Area.
First published in the Justice of the Peace (2003) 167 JPN 227. - Misleading Price Comparisons.
This article looks at a misleading decision on misleading price comparisons.
First published in the Solicitors Journal (2002) 146 Sol Jo 540. - False Trade Descriptions and Economy of Truth.
“Everybody knows that sometimes half a truth is no better than a downright falsehood.” First published in the Justice of the Peace (2002) 166 JPN 380 and 409. Also published in (2002) 110 TSC Communique, issues 7, 8 and 9.
- Multiple Prosecutions of Similar Offences.
This article looks at how a prosecutor might deal with traders, whose actions give rise to multiple offences, without laying an excessive number of informations and without laying informations which are duplicitous. Can the court sentence on the basis of similar offences not formally taken into consideration? First Published in the Justice of the Peace (2002) 166 JPN 140 & 162. - Trade or Business.
When does someone act in the course of a trade or business? Or, in terms of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008, who is a trader? First published in the Justice of the Peace (2001) 165 JPN 636. - “My Layer said it was Legal": Due Diligence?
A review of what may constitute due diligence and, in particular, whether this may include the taking of legal advice. First Published in the Justice of the Peace (2001) 165 JPN 416. - Promises to the Future and the Property Misdescriptions Act: Lewin v Barratt Homes Limited.
First published in the Justice of the Peace (2000) 164 JPN 76. - False Statements as to Services on Goods: Section 1 TDA and Formula One.
Sometimes a statement as to a service can also be a description applied to goods and, if false, be contrary to more than one statutory provision. First published in the Justice of the Peace (1999) 163 JPN 507. - The Information in the Information.
This article looks at what should be contained within an information if it is to comply with what are now the Criminal Procedure Rules 2010. The new provisions are set out in square brackets where applicable. First published in the Justice of the Peace (1998) 162 JPN 276.
- Promises to the Future: Goods and Services.
When is a statement or description incapable of being false because it does not relate to existing fact, but is a mere promise as to what is intended to happen in the future? First Published in the Justice of the Peace (1997) 161 JPN 956.