Unfair Contract Terms Flashcards
Clauses
Exemption exempt liability
Limit limit liability
Prob with limitation clauses
Went uncontrolled cause court reluctant to intervene
Traditional to treat equal bargaining power
To rely must show
Term incorporated
Rules of construction
Complies with statutory rules
Rules in corporation
Reasonable notice given
Signature
Notice actual or constructive
Previous course of dealing
E’stange v graucob 1934
If signed deemed to have read
Constructive notice
Nature of doc
Degree of notice
Onerous
Time
Parker v south eastern railways 1877
Only need to show taken reasonable steps
Spurling ltd v Bradsure 1956
More onerous more notice
Olly v Marlborough court ltd 1949
Before or at time of confract
Construction
Contra proferntum rule
Neg
Seriousness of breach
Encourage bus to draft contracts carefully
Limited benefit to small bus as forced to submit to onerous terms
Contra proferntum rule
Interpretated against party seeking to rely
Least fave
Andrews bros V singer 1934
Neg
Clear wording
Or
Synonym
Stent v gleeson 2000
Seriousness of breach
Internet narrow so couldn’t apply to serious breach
And
Develop rule of law that it’s imposs for exception clause to exclude liability for serious Breavb
Statutory controls
UCTA 77 intro cause of inadequate CL
S2 UCTA
Prevents bus for exempting liability for death and Pi
Others subject to reasonable test