Making More Use of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977: Stewart Gill Ltd v Horatio Myer & Co Ltd
In 1984 Lord Justice Slade was surprised to find that there had been only one reported case in which the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 ('UCTA) had been mentioned. ] By those standards, there has recently been something of a flurry of cases,' the latest of which is Stewart Gill Ltd v Horatio Myer & Co Ltd.3 The decision of the Court of Appeal raises a number of interesting issues regarding the scope and operation of the Act.