Welcome to the Journal of Trading Standards online edition, JoTS Online. Browse through our latest Articles - including Analysis, Opinion Pieces, Features and a selection of articles from our acclaimed print journal.
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Posted: 13 June 2023
UPDATES: A tribute to Bill Cassie MBE celebrates a distinguished Trading Standards career, his lasting influence on colleagues across the profession and the personal qualities that earned widespread admiration throughout his life.
Posted: 12 June 2023
UPDATES: Colleagues, friends and family remember Oswald Barnes, reflecting on a lifetime of service to Trading Standards, his contribution to the profession and the legacy he leaves behind for future generations.
Posted: 08 June 2023
UPDATES: CTSI has condemned plans to reduce Enfield's Trading Standards team to a single officer, warning that the cuts threaten consumer protection, undermine enforcement across hundreds of legal duties and come despite the service's recent prosecution successes.
Posted: 05 June 2023
UPDATES: A tribute to Peter Dann Wilson traces a remarkable life of military service, pioneering consumer protection work and decades of dedication to Trading Standards, celebrating the colleague, mentor and friend remembered by those who worked alongside him.
Posted: 25 May 2023
UPDATES: An independent review of the Consumer Code for Home Builders has been published, with recommendations aimed at strengthening complaint handling, improving consumer protection and building on the Code's existing dispute resolution framework.
Posted: 25 May 2023
UPDATES: A tribute to David Warren Beard celebrates a career spanning nearly four decades in trading standards, his expertise across multiple disciplines, his warmth and humour, and the lasting impact he made on colleagues, friends and the profession.
Posted: 24 May 2023
UPDATES: CTSI explains the role of Consumer Codes Approval Scheme sponsors in the new homes sector, reaffirming that multiple approved schemes provide independent consumer protection and that no single scheme has exclusive status.
Posted: 22 February 2023
UPDATES: Norman Watson’s career traced the changing shape of Trading Standards, from post-war weights and measures work to early Trade Descriptions Act prosecutions. This obituary remembers a forensic legal mind, generous teacher and private family man whose professionalism left a lasting mark on colleagues in Leeds and West Yorkshire.
Posted: 22 February 2023
UPDATES: Jim Morris came late to Trading Standards but built a career of quiet distinction, from West Riding weights and measures work to the arrival of electronic rail weighbridges and Trade Descriptions enforcement. Remembered as practical, principled and deeply generous, he helped colleagues, students and people in need throughout his life.
Posted: 06 February 2023
ANALYSIS: For some of us, finding ourselves back at our old schools is the stuff of anxiety-inducing bad dreams;...
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