Which organisations may bring a group action asking the court to enjoin or stop a business operator's conduct that infringes consumers' rights?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
For this exercise, the practice file holds the group's articles showing its stated purpose, its membership roll, its registration certificate and date, any Presidential Decree naming the organisation, and, on the non-profit route, its record of consumer activities and the requests received from consumers.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the trigger first and the categories second: suit is open only where the operator has violated the provision on consumer transactions, directly infringing a consumer's rights of life, body or property, and the infringement continues; the claimant must then be one of the four bodies the provision lists, each with all of its stated conditions.
Another reading notes the categories differ: the registered consumer group needs no request from consumers, while the non-profit route is opened only by requests from at least the number of consumers the provision sets, legally or factually hit by the same infringement; the provision also leaves to a Presidential Decree which nationwide economic groups qualify.
Your judgment
How could the file show that the rights infringed are rights of life, body or property held directly by consumers, and that the infringement is still continuing?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to change which groups qualify or what they must show, if a Presidential Decree names or removes a nationwide economic group, or if a court decision explains what counts as a direct and continuing infringement.