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IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PASSING OFF AND IMPERSONATION ?.

#iip_updates . Read details here https://informationispowah.blogspot.com/2023/06/is-there-difference-between-passing-off.html in this link. #Information_is_Power . #we_inform_the_uninformed . Hajji Pilawo has the best pilawo rice in Makindye, and he has been telling all his customers that he wants to expand to Kawempe so that his loyal customers do not have to cross town to find his pilawo.  Last week he found out that someone else is calling himself Hajji Pilawo in Kawempe and selling his pilawo. In fact, the man is also wearing Hajji Pilawo’s trademark Green Kanzu. Hajji Pilawo wants to know if this is a criminal offence or something else.   WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY? Pretending to be someone else is a crime. It does not matter whether that person is alive or dead (or risen from the dead) If you pretend to be someone else so that you trick, deceive people by making them believe that you are that person, you are committing this criminal offence known as personat...