The paper argues that the last few decades have witnessed changes in how citizens are viewed in the UK and that these changes have implications for security risk governance. The paper identifies a shift from contract to tort law, and a related shift from a contract model of citizens to a tort model of citizens, or from a view of citizens as robust, rational risk-takers to vulnerable persons at ...

by Jana Sanchez Consumer advocate R a l p h Nader spoke to a gathering of Harris County political activists, which included students f rom area colleges, at the Tidelands II Motor Inn on Tuesday, August 21. The visit was one part of Nader's present effort to launch a statewide voter education and registration project. Nader has a long history of outspokenness in politics and has been a pioneer ...

Skin beauty is a primary need for women, and it caused the cosmetic market to increase significantly domestic foreign brands throughout year. There has been abuse by irresponsible entrepreneurs selling producing skin care products that do not meet Indonesian Food Drug Authority (BPOM) requirements. The focus of this review find out how legal dangerous skincare users in perspective Islamic law c...

The traditional concepts of practicing the law do not follow the pace of the development of the new technologies. Development of cloud computing services last decade raised new issues of applicable law, jurisdiction, access to justice, the legal nature of the disputes, consumer protection etc. At the same time, we are witnessing parallel attempts from several public bodies and international org...

This paper will examine the question of whether patients, who receive free medical care, whether from private charitable or governmental hospitals, can claim rights as 'consumers' under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986. The issue will be discussed from a constitutional perspective as well as that of the law of torts.

AND DANIEL ADLER I n May 2016, after conducting a years-long study on the use of arbitration agreements in consumer finance, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced its plan to limit the use of class action waivers in pre-dispute arbitration agreements. The CFPB’s proposal, if enacted into law unchanged, could face significant legal challenges. At bottom, the proposal rests on the fl...

Thousands of U.S. households filed for bankruptcy just before the bankruptcy law changed in 2005. That rush-to-file was more pronounced, we find, in states with more generous bankruptcy exemptions and lower credit scores. We take that finding as evidence that the new law effectively reduces exemptions, which in turn should reduce the “demand” for bankruptcy and the resulting losses to suppliers...

Liability law allocates the costs of accidents among individuals. Accidental injuries are frequent in modern society. One car rear-ends another, damaging property and causing personal injury; a soda pop bottle explodes, injuring a consumer; a physician misdiagnoses a patient’s illness, resulting in medical complications when the illness is ultimately treated. Liability law has two principal goa...