Fitness for purpose
13 September 2012
The Sale of Goods Act protects against unsatisfactory goods, except where the buyer does not rely on the skill of the seller. But the lines can be blurred, as a case reported in The Buyer shows
In UCB Invoice Discounting Ltd v Creative Services Inc (6 November, 1998), a firm of printers had supplied to Creative Services a set of inserts to be bound into Yellow Pages. But Creative Services held that the inserts were not reasonably fit for their purpose, since a large area coloured by black ink as part of the design was liable to smudging or smearing when...