Assignment title: Information

(a) To introduce you to the way in which Australian law deals with businesses which breach their contracts with consumers AND SUPPLIERS.(b) To show how, while contract law is private law (between private persons, as compared to public law – government and the citizen), governments re steadily developing an armory of law which can deal with even the largest companies foolish enough to ignore their obligations under consumer contracts.(c) To show how attitudes to law, especially contract law, have and are continuing to change, and the old notion in contract law, 'caveat emptor' (let the buyer beware), no longer apply in many cases. (d) To show how business persons who ignore the nexis between contract law and consumer law do so at great risk, and how easy it is to breach the law