Use of illegal tactics of collecting monetary items by collection agencies and methods of combatting them in the countries of Anglo-Saxon legal families
The article is devoted to investigating foreign experience of combatting abusive practice in collecting monetary items by collection agencies. It describes legislations of the countries of Anglo-Saxon legal family that have the most extensive practice of law enforcement in this area. It considers the features of the bans and restrictions enshrined in the US 1977 Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (1977), which was adopted with the aim to regulate in detail the activities in this sphere. It investigates judicial and non-judicial methods of protecting debtors violated rights, powers of the bodies involved in protecting debtors rights. It analyzes the impact of the degree of regulating the collection services market and economic factors on the number and severity of violating debtors rights. In the end, a conclusion is made about the influence of nature and models of collection activities on the number of abuses on the part of the collectors.