E-commerce guide: Law and ordering
13 September 2012
When it comes to the law, buyers can trade safely online by sticking to contract law basics and good procurement practice, argues Dick Jennings
The Internet changes everything. Right? Not in the law, it doesn’t - to the law it is simply another channel of communication, to which existing law applies. Our starting point in the UK is that “if it isn’t banned, it’s legal”. Subject to long-standing limitations on fraud, espionage and pornography, using the Internet to do business in radically new ways is...