Class action And its role in protecting against misleading commercial advertising

Abstract

The commercial advertising plays an important role in the promotion of goods and services and there is a lot of the problems raised by this advertisement if it  was misleading and different from the fact and the main aim of it is to cheat the consumer, so must be existence the  means  which can use it by the consumer  to protect himself against such fraud and by using the individual  legal lawsuit by the costumer  or by using the collective lawsuit by unions or associations. Such lawsuits need to have a special legal regulation gives the right to such institutions for speaking on behalf of the group and claim their rights.

 We noted  that  Iraqi the  legislation failed to give this role to such associations and unions  with compared to what laws reached in the developed countries such as France