Attorney fees.

- O.C.G.A. § 10-1-835 adopts the private remedies available under the Fair Business Practices Act, O.C.G.A. § 10-1-390 et seq., which includes awards of reasonable attorney fees and litigation expenses under O.C.G.A. § 10-1-399(d). Galardi v. Steele-Inman, 259 Ga. App. 249, 576 S.E.2d 555 (2002).

After the jury rendered a verdict in favor of the beauty pageant contestant, finding that the pageant promoters violated the statutory requirements regarding the providing of certain information to contestants, the posting of a bond, and the maintaining of an escrow account, in violation of O.C.G.A. §§ 10-1-831,10-1-832, and10-1-837, the trial court's award of attorney fees and litigation expenses to the contestant pursuant to O.C.G.A. §§ 10-1-399 and10-1-835 was proper. Galardi v. Steele-Inman, 266 Ga. App. 515, 597 S.E.2d 571 (2004).

Double recovery prohibited.

- Although an injured party could have recovered attorney fees for appellants' bad faith under O.C.G.A. § 13-6-11 or for their breach of the beauty pageant statutes under O.C.G.A. § 10-1-835, the law prohibited a double recovery of attorney fees and expenses as damages since the tortfeasors alleged that the injured party cheated in a beauty pageant, resulting in the injured party being effectively barred from the pageant, and causing the injured party to be unable to find work as an adult entertainer. Galardi v. Steele-Inman, 259 Ga. App. 249, 576 S.E.2d 555 (2002).