(c) A debt collector threatens a debtor with imprisonment for debt if he does not settle the
debt immediately. (It is not possible to be imprisoned for debt.)
(d ) A car dealer reduces the allowance on a car which a consumer is trading in by untruthfully
saying that the car has no chance of passing its MOT.
(e) A postman sells potatoes which he has grown in his garden, describing them as
organically grown, which they are not.
(f ) A manufacturer of furniture, who never sells direct to consumers, falsely describes his
beds as made from oak in a newspaper advertisement.
(g) A holiday company advertises that a hotel has a swimming pool when it does not.
(h) A trader advertises televisions for sale without revealing that they have been
reconditioned.
(i) An estate agent describes a house as having three double bedrooms when the third
‘bedroom’ is too small to fit a bed in.2 Explain the offences created by the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations
2008.Task
Your employer has asked you to draft a report briefly outlining the following matters:
(a) The main effect of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008.
(b) How an offence regarding misleading price indications can be committed.
(c) How a business can become criminally liable on account of producing an unsafe product.
(d) How a business might commit a criminal offence by misusing a computer.
(e) How a partner in a firm might commit an offence under the Bribery Act 2010.418 Chapter 15Regulation of business by the criminal law
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