Ann Everton & David Hughes 
Studies in Public Law and the Retail Sector 

This title was first published in 2000: Part 1 Shifting patterns of retailing — a journey to and through the ‘golden age’: highlights of the earlier history; the post-war decades — the »50s, »60s and »70s; the ‘retail revolution’ of the »80s — the creation of the ‘golden age’; the early and middle »90s — less certain times…and a ‘watershed’. Part 2 Planning control and retail developments: the policy; policy into practice — the law in operation. Part 3 Competition law and policy and retailing: preliminary observations; the domestic law — up to the Competition Act 1998; domestic law reform — the new Act; the European law; the approach to price discrimination and mergers; a consideration of certain further major issues. A postscript — in the ‘millennium spirit’.