Electronic rules
13 September 2012
A great deal of uncertainty has surrounded the legislation and regulations that govern trading on the Internet. Ken Burnett summarises the laws that affect purchasers when doing business in the e-world
E-commerce has been such a revolution for purchasers that uncertainty has been growing about which laws apply in cyberspace. However, e-procurement is still governed by existing law and purchasers should not forget good purchasing practice.
Apart from the laws that apply to purchasers in what may, guardedly, be called the “real” world, there are key pieces of...