Legal Guide
This page was last modified on August 9, 2000. There are no plans to update it further.
This website was created by Karl Dore, the principal architect of the Consumer Product Warranty and Liability Act. It is intended to provide information on the legislation, not to give or offer individual legal advice. For further assistance contact New Brunswick's Consumer Affairs Branch or one of the Rentalsman Offices.
This page was last modified on August 9, 2000.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents for scope/coverage of legislation, express warranties, implied warranties, privity & products liability, remedies and waivers; and links to full text of legislation, cases (indexed by name, section of Act considered, product, judge & date), law review articles, background law reform reports, and top 10 list.
Top 10 List
Scope/Coverage of the Legislation
Express Warranties
Implied Warranties
Privity & Products Liability
- PROTECTION FOR PERSONS NOT PRIVY TO CONTRACT
- Introduction
- CPWALA text
- Cases
- Vertical privity rules
- Horizontal privity rules
- Business buyer's rights under section 23
- Business buyer's indemnification rights for liability incurred for consumer loss
- Where a consumer product is incorporated into some other thing
- Section 23 rights/remedies are limited
- Section 23 and contracting out
- Case law
- DANGEROUSLY DEFECTIVE GOODS
Remedies
Waivers/ Disclaimers/Contracting Out
- General approach to waivers
- Consumer buyers
- Business buyers