If you have a franchise or thinking about entering into one, it is essential to know your rights and obligations in terms of the CPA. Here is a brief overview of the main requirements and definitions in terms of the Act.
As many writers have said before, the Consumer Protection Act (CPA) is a far-reaching piece of legislation in that it applies to all transactions where goods and services are provided to consumers. Â The health and safety industry will be greatly [...]
What is the impact of the Consumer Protection Act (CPA) on cell phone contracts and the cellular industry? Many people are asking the question and articles are being written in the press. In this article, we answer some of the questions [...]
The Consumer Protection Act will not apply to transactions where the "consumer" is a juristic person (company or a CC) where that juristic person has annual turnover OR asset value over a 'certain value'. The Department of Trade and Industry have [...]
Have you been presented with an unfair agreement (like an IT Contract or a commercial lease agreement) to sign by a vendor, service provider or landlord? For example, when you license software, procure cloud storage, buy hardware, rent premises, rent [...]
The readability statistics of a document can be very interesting and can tell you a lot about a document. They are also very useful for determining whether a document is in plain language or not? Let us look at an [...]
Many people view the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 (CPA or "the Act") as the Bill of Rights for consumers - probably rightly so, as consumers will have ample rights in terms of the Act, once in operation. One [...]
On 10 June 2008 an article in Finance Week titled "Apple retailers feeling rotten" focused on an uproar by 9 technology retailers over a print ad campaign run by the Core Group naming them as "grey" importers of Apple hardware. [...]
