Consumer and Debt Law

People’s Law School publication

This problem-solving manual for advocates and other legal professionals helping clients with consumer or debt problems is available as a Clicklaw Wikibook. It covers 45 topics on problems people experience with:

• consumer purchases,
• contracts,
• borrowing money, and
• being in debt.

Each section includes sample client problems, summary of the relevant law, recap of information needed from the clients, and suggestions for solving the client’s problem.

As a wikibook:

• the online version is fully linked to legislation, forms, and cases,
• the manual is mobile friendly, and
• a print-on-demand copy is available to order.

Note: The information is up to date as of August 2018.

For more information, see People’s Law School.

This manual replaces Consumer Law and Credit/​Debt Law, which was published by the Legal Services Society (Legal Aid BC).