Unfair Contract Act and Consumer Rights

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Unfair Contract Act and Consumer rights It's well known that Unfair Contract Act purports to protect the weaker part in the contract who find himself is compelled to accept certain unfair terms by which he may harmed and loses his right such as excluding /restricting liability for negligence that attributable to his opponent “dominator Party”. The most type of companies, that use such sort of contracts, are the trading companies that dealing in selling Goods to consumers in its day-to-day deals, also we may find some sort of companies that hiring labours are using such type of contracts with a labour find himself forcibly signs the contract of hiring without fully recognizing its contents. we can imagine one of the companies that wish to enter into a contract with consumer to sell some goods, , and place in the contract that “THE SOLD GOODS SHALL BE NEITHER REPLACED NOR REFUNDED’” . By incorporating such term, the company didn’t achieved the minimally tolerable of reasonableness. Since the company excludes liability for manufacturer defects to the product and prejudiced to consumer rights to refund or even replace the product whereupon, If a consumer believes that this term of the contract being an unfair term he can complain to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) or to one of several consumer-related organizations that can act against unfair consumer contracts. Such a complaint may lead to court action. As an analysis for the reasonableness in the light of UCTA 1977, the company has to meet the following requirements: The contract / notice must not include terms which to exclude or restrict liability for breach of contract, providing an inadequate service, or providing goods that have been misdescribed, are not of satisfactory quality or are not fit for their purpose. This is the case unless such a term is reasonable, although exceptions exist, for example when

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