Tag: Consumer Protection Act

The Consumer Protection Act (CPA) contains extensive regulations prescribing terms and information that must be included in franchise agreements. However, although it had been raised in several cases that a franchise agreement that the parties had concluded omitted some of the prescribed details, in none of these cases had the courts declared outright that these omissions rendered the agreements void, or even that it afforded either of the parties the option of cancelling the agreement. For example, in Steynberg v Tammy Taylor Nails Franchising No 45 (Pty) Ltd, the Court noted that the franchisee had raised the argument that the franchise …