Consumers’ awareness and practices towards ‘exclusion clause’ and its position under Islamic law

The aim of this paper is to explore the consumers’ awareness and practices towards ‘exclusion clause. The underlying philosophy is that consumers are free to enter into contracts and therefore must take care of their own interests. The results of this study show that only 41.8% from 400 respondents...

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Main Authors:	Abu Bakar, Elistina, Amin, Naemah
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2015
Subjects:	K Law (General)
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/46646/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/46646/1/MACFEA2015_9.pdf

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spelling	iium-466462016-05-24T02:14:14Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/46646/ Consumers’ awareness and practices towards ‘exclusion clause’ and its position under Islamic law Abu Bakar, Elistina Amin, Naemah K Law (General) The aim of this paper is to explore the consumers’ awareness and practices towards ‘exclusion clause. The underlying philosophy is that consumers are free to enter into contracts and therefore must take care of their own interests. The results of this study show that only 41.8% from 400 respondents in Klang Valley aware of the existence of such clauses in their dealing with the suppliers and 50.8 % of the respondents responded that they did not understand the implication of such clause. In total, 54.3% of them stated that they would still sign the document even though they were already aware of the exclusion clauses or any other unfair contractual terms. The Islamic law of mu‘āmalāt has also been referred to look at the extent to which Islamic law has provided protection to consumers in relation to exclusion clauses. Malaysia should adopt these principles into consumer policy and legislation so as to strengthen the consumer protection in the country. 2015-11 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/46646/1/MACFEA2015_9.pdf Abu Bakar, Elistina and Amin, Naemah (2015) Consumers’ awareness and practices towards ‘exclusion clause’ and its position under Islamic law. In: 19th MACFEA National Seminar (MACFEA2015), 19- 20 Nov 2015, Putrajaya.
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description	The aim of this paper is to explore the consumers’ awareness and practices towards ‘exclusion clause. The underlying philosophy is that consumers are free to enter into contracts and therefore must take care of their own interests. The results of this study show that only 41.8% from 400 respondents in Klang Valley aware of the existence of such clauses in their dealing with the suppliers and 50.8 % of the respondents responded that they did not understand the implication of such clause. In total, 54.3% of them stated that they would still sign the document even though they were already aware of the exclusion clauses or any other unfair contractual terms. The Islamic law of mu‘āmalāt has also been referred to look at the extent to which Islamic law has provided protection to consumers in relation to exclusion clauses. Malaysia should adopt these principles into consumer policy and legislation so as to strengthen the consumer protection in the country.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Abu Bakar, Elistina Amin, Naemah
author_facet	Abu Bakar, Elistina Amin, Naemah
author_sort	Abu Bakar, Elistina
title	Consumers’ awareness and practices towards ‘exclusion clause’ and its position under Islamic law
title_short	Consumers’ awareness and practices towards ‘exclusion clause’ and its position under Islamic law
title_full	Consumers’ awareness and practices towards ‘exclusion clause’ and its position under Islamic law
title_fullStr	Consumers’ awareness and practices towards ‘exclusion clause’ and its position under Islamic law
title_full_unstemmed	Consumers’ awareness and practices towards ‘exclusion clause’ and its position under Islamic law
title_sort	consumers’ awareness and practices towards ‘exclusion clause’ and its position under islamic law
publishDate	2015
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/46646/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/46646/1/MACFEA2015_9.pdf
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Consumers’ awareness and practices towards ‘exclusion clause’ and its position under Islamic law

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