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Law digests: 22 March 2024

22 March 2024
Issue: 8064 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Contract

Parker-Grennan v Camelot UK Lotteries Ltd [2024] EWCA Civ 185, [2024] All ER (D) 36 (Mar)

The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, dismissed the appellant’s appeal from a decision which had dismissed her application for summary judgment against the respondent operator. The appeal was about online gambling, but it had squarely raised the issue of what was needed to be done to incorporate standard terms and conditions into a contract for goods or services which was made online. The appellant had raised three issues: (i) whether the respondent’s terms were incorporated in the contract between her and the respondent; (ii) whether certain of those terms were rendered unenforceable by the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 (SI 1999/2083); and (iii) as a matter of construction of the contract between her and the respondent, whether she won £1 million or only £10. The court held, among other things, that it agreed with the judge that there was nothing onerous or unusual about the various contractual provisions on which the respondent sought to

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