1.1 Unfair Trade Practices- Brief Background
The term Unfair Trade Practice (UTP) broadly refers to any fraudulent, deceptive or dishonest trade practice; or business misrepresentation of the products or services that are being sold; which is prohibited by a statute or has been recognised as actionable under law by a judgement of the court. However, the term does not have a universal standard definition.
Misrepresentations can be about any characteristic of a good or service, real or imagined. Consequently laws prohibiting unfair trade practices often include a general provision and more specific provisions addressing some of the more common types of misrepresentations.
Unfair trade practices encompass a broad array of torts, all of which
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¬ To analysis the social, economic and legal framework in place to deal with unfair trade practice in India and Globally.
¬ To highlight the challenges being faced in India in relation to such unfair trade practices.
¬ To suggests way forward and highlighting effective measures.
1.4 Scope of study:-
¬ Determining the relevant policy and regulations and implementation challenges in reference unfair trade practices.
¬ Provide recommendations on how unfair trade practices can efficiently addressed through the appropriate enforcement policy.
1.5 Hypothesis:- Under the present study, this is to explore and to test the effectiveness of laws and legislation enforced to curtail the unfair trade practices in India and abroad along with an analysis to test as to whether the current laws and regulation are effective enough to protect a consumer against prevalent ill practices of market.
1.6 Survey of Literature:- In the word of Walter R. Brag (2002), “The literature in any field forms the foundation upon which all future work will be built”. Without knowing the past we cannot do some new work in a subject, it is very necessary that we should know the past of that
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