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Centre Staff research published by Department for Business

The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (formerly BERR) has published research from Lincoln Law School on the problems facing UK consumers.

Professor John Peysner and Dr Angus Nurse researched the need for, and mechanisms to achieve satisfactory compensation for groups of consumers where they have suffered loss from traders and considered how enforcement action and the law on resolving consumer complaints could be improved.

The Centre's research sets out a number of recommendations that the Government are considering the light of the Consumer Law Review and as part of the consumer White Paper published in July 2009.

The Centre's research report can be found at BERR's website here.

For further information contact Professor Peysner or Dr Nurse in the Law School.

PhD Study - Students wishing to undertake PhD study in areas related to the Centre's interests are welcome to contact Professor Peysner to discuss their interests.  For more information about studying for a PhD at Lincoln Law School please contact Sharon Ritchie on 01522 886276 or email - sritchie@lincoln.ac.uk

Improving Access to Civil Justice through Collective Actions - In July 2008 the Civil Justice Council published its recommendations to the Lord Chancellor on developing a more efficient and effective procedure for collective actions.  Further details can be found at the Civil Justice Council website here.

The Health and Consumer Protection Directorate of the European Commission has commissioned a study to analyse the problems faced by consumers in obtaining redress for mass claims/mass issues where multiple consumers have similar claims against the same seller/provider of issues.  More information about the programme can be found at the Commission's Collective Redress Website.