Fairness of consumer Transactions in United Arab emirates and English Law, A

Comparative Study

Dr. Mahmoud Fayyad

Faculty of law, university of Sharjah

Legal Notion of Fairness

• Standard Form Contracts; • Inequality of Bargaining Power; • Economic Weakness; • Ignorance Weakness; • Excessive Advantages • Forms of Unfair terms: • Exclusion Clauses; • Variation clauses; • Penalty Classes.

General Rules of Control

• Transparency of Contract Terms;

• Good Faith Principle;

The principle of Transparency

• Breach of Transparency:

• Lack of Time to Read;

• Ambiguous Contract Terms;

• Non- Incorporated Contract Terms;

• Legal Complicated terms.

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• Requirements of Transparency:

• Language of Terms;

• Duty to Inform;

• Incorporation of all Terms;

The principle of Good Faith

• Subjective Good Faith;

• Objective Good Faith and Balance of

Terms:

• Pre-Contractual Good Faith;

• Substantive Good Faith.

• The List of the Regulation

The List of The Directive

• The Notion of The List;

• The Duty of The List;

• The Content of the List.