Editing Unfair business practices (section)

'''Unfair business practices''' (also '''unfair commercial practices''') describes a set of practices by businesses which are considered unfair, and which may be unlawful. It includes practices which are covered by other areas of law, such as [[fraud]], [[misrepresentation]], and oppressive or [[unconscionability|unconscionable]] contract terms. 
Protections may be afforded to [[business-to-business]] dealings, or may be limited to those dealing as [[consumer]]s. Regulation of such practices is a departure from traditional views of freedom to agree on contractual terms, summed up in the 1804 French Civil Code as ''qui dit contractuel dit juste'' (roughly, anything contractual is fair).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rutgers |first=Jacobien |last2=Sauter |first2=Wolf |date=December 2021 |title=Promoting Fair Private Governance in the Platform Economy: EU Competition and Contract Law Applied to Standard Terms |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-yearbook-of-european-legal-studies/article/promoting-fair-private-governance-in-the-platform-economy-eu-competition-and-contract-law-applied-to-standard-terms/4D6259A62D7E49EA18631960465F7E89 |journal=Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies |language=en |volume=23 |pages=343–381 |doi=10.1017/cel.2021.11 |issn=1528-8870|doi-access=free }}</ref>