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Consumer Contracts Focusing on Sales Contract - Comparison of Old and New Legislation
Opletalová, Kristýna ; Pohl, Tomáš (advisor) ; Macková, Alena (referee)
Consumer Contracts Focusing on Sales Contract - Comparison of Old and New Legislation Consumer contracts as contracts concluded with consumer who is the weaker party make integral part of our everyday life. Although we usually consider consumer protection an 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 consumer law, however, do not in any way exclude its main purpose - seeking justice, i.e. balancing equality on one side and freedom on the other side. This branch of law is even more topical nowadays as we are exposed to advertising anywhere. Moreover we are experiencing financial crisis at the moment when most of people are suffering from lack of money which sharply contrasts with insufficient financial knowledge of Czech population. Legislation changes slowly and 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...
Consumer Contracts Focusing on Sales Contract - Comparison of Old and New Legislation
Opletalová, Kristýna ; Pohl, Tomáš (advisor) ; Macková, Alena (referee)
Consumer Contracts Focusing on Sales Contract - Comparison of Old and New Legislation Consumer contracts as contracts concluded with consumer who is the weaker party make integral part of our everyday life. Although we usually consider consumer protection an 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 consumer law, however, do not in any way exclude its main purpose - seeking justice, i.e. balancing equality on one side and freedom on the other side. This branch of law is even more topical nowadays as we are exposed to advertising anywhere. Moreover we are experiencing financial crisis at the moment when most of people are suffering from lack of money which sharply contrasts with insufficient financial knowledge of Czech population. Legislation changes slowly and 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...

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