TS Today is a publication produced by the Chartered Institute of Trading Standards Institute to inform and deliver influential academic research, news analyses, topical features and a range of opinions and perspectives about trading standards and the wider issues that affect it. In this comment piece, Giles Bedloe explores an area of the recent budget overlooked by commentators  – the fact that the government is looking to legislate to allow consumer enforcement bodies to ask the courts to order civil fines against companies that break consumer law.

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