Stephen Corones' timely new work assists practitioners, academics and students understand the Australian Consumer Law regime and its impact. The book: summarises the history and constitutional basis of the ACL; explains how the ACL will be implemented, amended and enforced; explores how the various general and specific protections interrelate, and the scope of their overlap; and considers the content of the ACL, and the principal changes from the provisions of the Trade Practices Act.
Coming to grips with the ACL is essential given its specific protections, which include regulation of unfair contract terms, new consumer guarantees (replacing the system of statutory implied conditions and warranties), new rights of redress and an improved nationally consistent consumer product safety regime. An expansion of civil offences and pecuniary penalties supports the ACL.
