Re: Businessman recovers £36.000 from NatWest


"Mogga" <di@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:34:19 +0100, "R D S" <rsandr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"tim....." <tims_new_home@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quoted from elsewhere...
'Of course when you got the bank account there were terms and conditions
(though most don't read them). Yet that's irrelevant; a contract must be
written within the law, and they can't enforce a contract with legally
unfair terms. Ultimately if it isn't proportionate then it's unlawful,
and
thus you've a right to your money back. '


But lots of other organisations charge silly amounts of money. Is it
legally fair for someone to charge you £100 an hour for work? Is it
legally fair that some people are paid silly amounts of money?


Yes & yes provided that the providers of the service or goods are not acting
in a cartel with the sole purpose of artificially inflating the cost of the
service or goods.

You might for example instruct a solicitor who charges £150/hr for his
services. Say
he asked you to make an appointment to see him & that what he had to discuss
wouldn't take more than an hour. But then you had to cancel the appointment
at short notice.
If you then received an Invoice for £500 for missing the appointment & were
told that the charge was in accordance with his Terms & Conditions, you
would be entitled to object on the basis that it was an Unfair Contract Term
& represented a penalty charge which he would not be entitled to as the
actual cost to him of the missed appointment could have been no more than
one hour of his time.

Joe Lee


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