Landmark Cases in Consumer Law

Author: Jodi Gardner; Iain Ramsay
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509952632

Published In: July 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781509952298

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This book analyses the history of the common law foundations of consumer law, and encourages readers to rethink the role that consumer law plays in our society.

Consumer law is often constructed as purely statute-based law. However—as this collection will demonstrate—this is far from the truth. Much of the history of the common law concerns consumer transactions and markets. Case law has often established or modified the ground rules of consumer markets, had a patterning effect on the economic organisation of markets, and expressed cultural visions of the market and consumers. An analysis of landmark cases of consumer law allows many traditional cases to be viewed through a new and distinct lens, providing significant academic and intellectual value.

The collection also includes a unique socio-legal perspective, considering the role that consumer law has played in addressing racial discrimination, LGBTQ challenges and the rights of women.

This collection of landmark cases demonstrates the theoretical and practical significance of consumer law through a wide range of contributions by distinguished authors from the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States and Australia.

Introduction

Part I: Common Law Foundations of Consumer Law

1. Earl of Chesterfield v Janssen (1751) 2 Ves Sen 125; 1 Atk 301 (Ch)

2. Gardiner v Gray (1815) 4 Camp 144, 171 Eng Rep 46 (KB)

3. Parker v South Eastern Railway (1877) 2 CPD 416 (CA)

4. Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball [1893] 1 QB 256 (CA)

5. Helby v Matthews [1895] AC 471 (HL)

6. Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562 (HL)

7. Jarvis v Swan Tours [1972] 3 WLR 954 (CA)

8. Tesco v Nattrass [1972] AC 153 (HL)

9. Lloyds Bank v Bundy [1975] QB 326 (CA)

10. Erven Warnink BV v J Townend & Sons (Hull) Ltd [1979] AC 731 (HL)