The Unacceptable Face of the Consumer Guarantees Bill
Commentatot S often talk nzetaphorically of the ends and means of legal rules. They will characterise rules as being designed to achieve certain tasks or 'lawjobs.'l A focus is thereby provided for assessing why the job is being performed, the virtue of the end product and the difficulties which will be encountered in attaining it. This note draws attention to the Consumer Guarantees Bill 19902 (introduced as a Private Member's Bill by Martyn Jones MP), and the different 'lawjobs' contained in it. The Bill sought to enact: