Your rights if you change your mind

Signed on the dotted line and wish you hadn't? Harvey Jones investigates what rights you have if you've changed your mind.

We've all signed on the dotted line only to have second thoughts the moment we finish scribbling our name. I've done it plenty of times, after buying a pricey new PC, yet another pair of shoes that I knew were too tight for my big flappy feet, and, most terrifying of all, exchanging contracts on a house (my instincts were correct, and I spent £25,000 sorting out the rot lurking in the basement).