THEORETICAL ISSUES OF THE DEFINITION OF THE BASIS OF THE CONSUMER’S LEGAL STATUS
The article reviews some aspects of the nature of the consumer’s legal status. It is noted that the consumer is generally viewed as the weaker party of property relations. The author critically evaluates the criteria elaborated by the doctrine which are the cornerstone of the consumer’s recognition as the weaker party to the relations. The author gives grounds for his conclu-sion that the fixing of the consumer’s legal status as the weaker party is based upon the differences of the interests of the parties to the consumer re-lations. He also indicates that the phenomenon of consumer’s interest and the mechanism of its realisation requires a complex research.