“Business Law Case Study Bert is a retired university law lecturer. He bought a Compact lap top computer from his local PeeCee Universe shop. The computer worked reasonably well for a couple of months but then started to crash repeatedly. Bert lost valuable work (as well as his patience!). It turned out that it had a faulty hard drive. Bert is wondering whether he should seek repair or replacement pursuant to section 48B Sale of Goods Act 1979, as amended. Advise Bert as to the ambit of these rights.”

If the seller commits a breach of any of his obligations under the contract, the buyer is entitled to damages for any losses that breach causes him. The Sale and Supply of Goods to Consumers Regulations  implement an entirely new part to the Sale of Goods Act 1979, to be introduced after s.48 which now governs the common law rules that apply to contract for the sales of goods and the buyers basic remedies to terminate the contract, the right to reject the goods and the right to claim damages. These new provisions extends the existing rights under Sale of Goods Act 1979 and intend to give buyers greater rights when purchasing goods and services and considerably strengthen the right of buyers and buyers remedies….(short extract)