"Harold Davis" wrote in message
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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in
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If the large print said '75 quid fine if you don't observe our
conditions' they might have more chance of saying it is some form of
contract.

Yes, but not of enforcing a clause of that kind within it: pure penalties
in contracts aren't enforceable.

If you read the Court of Appeal judgement in the Beavis case, you'll find that they
are actually, and were.