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3 unusual facts about Inequality of bargaining power


Autoclenz Ltd v Belcher

35. So the relative bargaining power of the parties must be taken into account in deciding whether the terms of any written agreement in truth represent what was agreed and the true agreement will often have to be gleaned from all the circumstances of the case, of which the written agreement is only a part.

92 I respectfully agree with the view, emphasised by both Smith and Sedley LJJ, that the circumstances in which contracts relating to work or services are concluded are often very different from those in which commercial contracts between parties of equal bargaining power are agreed.

Inequality of bargaining power

Radcliffe v Riddle Motor Services Ltd 1939 AC 215, 241, Lord Wright in a judgment restricting common employment notes ‘how little bargaining power a workman possessed’



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