Half Title Page; Half Title verso; Title Page; Title verso; Acknowledgements; Contents; Table of Cases; 1. Introduction; 2. Directive 93/13 and EC Consumer Law and Policy; 3. Unfair Terms Regulation: A Comparative Study; 4. Unfair Terms Control in England and Italy; 5. Subjective Scope of Application; 6. Application to Public Services; 7. Objective Scope of Application; 8. Formal and Substantive Controls; 9. Conclusion: A European Tradition?; Appendix I; Appendix II; Index
Summary
The book examines Directive 93/13 on Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts and its implementation with a twofold aim: first, to understand the extent to which the Directive has influenced and will influence fundamental notions and principles of contract law in the domestic legal systems of the Member States; second, it examines the extent to which the domestic legal traditions of the Member States have influenced the process of drafting of the Directive and, more importantly, will affect the way that the Directive is interpreted and applied in national courts. The focus is mainly on English law)
