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Selected Issues of Consumer Contracts
Opletalová, Kristýna ; Pohl, Tomáš (advisor) ; Elischer, David (referee)
Selected Issues of Consumer Contracts Consumer contracts as contracts concluded with consumer who is the weaker party make integral part of our everyday life. Although we usually consider consumer protectionan area of contractual law, it is a category with an overlap into commercial, european, criminal and administrative law. Consumer law which is strongly affected by EU legislation, stands on the border between private and public law. Practical aspects of consumerlaw, however, do not in any way exclude its mainpurpose - seeking justice, i.e. balancing equality on one side and freedom on the otherside. This branch of law is even more topical nowadays as we are exposed to advertising anywhere. Despite the fact that we are experiencing economical crisis at the moment, financial knowledge of Czech population increases slowly. Legislation does not correspond to the development of society. Reality is then quite different to the way we know it from textbooks. The New Civil Code that brings many changes not only in consumer law was adopted in 2012. It provoked numberless discussions both between lawyers and public. The importance of the code was overshadowed by media shortcut and ideological construction. The old legislation was presented as a socialist heritage that we have to get rid of. The reform of...
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