The question (12 marks)
Tejas told a dealer that he needed a washing machine capable of handling forty kilograms of laundry a day for his family guest house and bought the model the dealer recommended. It has broken down four times in three months and the dealer's engineers have failed to repair it. Tejas asks you to send a legal notice. (a) On what legal basis will you frame the notice? (b) Set out the contents that the notice must have and the errors you will avoid. (12 marks)
MU Module III, 3.4; pack ch. 03, legal notice for defective goods.
Plan your answer on paper before you look at the authorities — issue first, then the rule, then apply it to these facts.
It tests Unit 3 · LLP, Company Notices and Insolvency of Drafting, Pleading and Conveyancing – II.
Authorities you will need
- Sale of Goods Act 1930, section 12
- Sale of Goods Act 1930, section 16(1)
- Sale of Goods Act 1930, section 16(2)
- Sale of Goods Act 1930, section 59
- Consumer Protection Act 2019, section 2(7)
- Consumer Protection Act 2019, section 2(10)
- Consumer Protection Act 2019, section 69
- General Clauses Act 1897, section 27
How an answer is marked
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