Haringey Trading Standards

Fair Trading for Haringey

Helping consumers and businesses

What we can do

Advise businesses on consumer protection laws
Investigate breaches of consumer protection laws
Prosecute traders who commit serious offences
Inspect trade premises
Provide a wide range of information on consumer protection matters and other agencies

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Consumer Protection laws

We enforce a wide range of legislation, which covers:

Fair trading malpractices
Safety of goods
Misleading prices
Counterfeit goods
False claims on goods and services
Weighing and measuring of goods

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Consumer Direct

Consumer Direct logo

If you need consumer advice, or wish to make a complaint about a business, please ring the Government funded 'Consumer Direct' telephone helpline 08454 04 05 06 which provides help and advice for consumers in Great Britain and also provides advice by email via their website www.consumerdirect.gov.uk. Consumer Direct works in partnership with Trading Standards departments across the country and keeps them updated on all the cases it deals with. It also refers those cases which may need further investigation to Trading Standards.

To find out more, visit the Consumer Direct website in our useful external links section.

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Further Information

For more information including Business and Consumer Advice, Latest News and Trading Standards legislation, look at the topic headings shown in white on the orange background in the left hand margin of this page

If you are a consumer and need advice on a consumer dispute or wish to make a complaint about a trader in Haringey please contact Consumer Direct by phone on 08454 04 05 06 or via their website (see external links section below).

If you are a business based in Haringey and want further advice on how to comply with the law please contact us on the email address below or write to :

Trading Standards
Commercial Environmental Health
Enforcement
Units 271-272
Lee Valley Technopark
Ashley Road
Tottenham
N17 9LN

Tel 020 8489 5134
Fax 020 8489 5554
Email tradingstandards@haringey.gov.uk.

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