Where mechanics' worries are baseless
27th October 1988, Page 70
27th October 1988
Page 70
Page 70, 27th October 1988
— Where mechanics' worries are baseless
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Product Liability, Tort Law, Consumer Protection, Consumer Protection Act, Legal Liability, Law / Crime, Labor
• Some individual garage mechanics have expressed concern 3bout the new product liability law as if it exposed them personally to new liability in some way. This concern is largely ill-founded. Obviously, every mechanic and other garage employee should exercise all possible care when carrying out a repair. However, the garage as employer will be liable for the acts or emissions of its employees, when these are committed in the course of their employment. This is all unchanged by the new law. No individual employee will be treated as the supplier of a product for the purposes of the Sale of Goods Act, Supply of Goods and Services Act, or Consumer Protection Act 1987.
• by Jonathan Jones, legal adviseil Motor Agents Association, on liability.