On 14/08/2013 17:50, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article , John
Rumm wrote:
20 years of experience in county court civil litigation and
consumer rights advice made this a very simple judgement for me.
County court judges are in the law business - not the right and
wrong business. They will rule on the law and not how hard done
you felt yourself to be be.

Agreed, although I am slightly surprised there is not an angle of
attack in the unfair contract terms legislation - since he was
pushed into agreeing to a contract without first having sight of
it.

I was also thinking that. I guess the credit note had the wording. If
not the OP could have had his own set of conditions of accepting a
credit note. I wonder what the judge would have made of this!

Think you'd have to go a few courts higher to argue that. Sadly,
it's often the case that if you sign to having agreed to conditions
you're stuck with them - even if they later seem unfair.

There was a recent one on the radio - someone had booked a holiday
and paid by credit card. The hotel was rubbish and totally
misrepresented in the blurb, but the credit card company refused to
help because 'terms and conditions' had been signed.

Some credit cards will do anything to save paying out.