Practical Legal Guidance

Unfair Trade Practice

A trade practice adopting unfair or deceptive methods to promote the sale of goods or services.

Detailed Meaning

Unfair trade practices include false representations about goods or services, misleading advertisements, and other deceptive methods for promoting sales, and give rise to remedies before consumer fora independent of any deficiency in the underlying service itself.

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