28 July 2020
The Law Commission has launched draft legislation to remodel online shopping laws
Its consultation, ‘Consumer sales contracts: transfer of ownership’, published this week, sets out its proposals to simplify the rules on when consumers acquire ownership of goods, including where they have ordered goods online or where a retailer goes insolvent before they have received the goods.
Ownership would transfer when the retailer identifies the goods to fulfil the contract, for example, when the goods are labelled. Law Commissioner Sarah Green said current rules ‘are shrouded in complex language’.
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