So how can one begin to understand these issues? The immediate problems are: • unfamiliar vocabulary; • unfamiliar legal references; • complex grammatical structure; • dense (perhaps boring) text. The first task is to annotate the above text from the judgment to reveal the areas of lack of understanding, words and phrases that need defining and the areas of interconnection. This is similar in method to the annotation of s 3 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act (UCTA) 1977 in Chapter 3. This is done in Figure 4.13, below. But remember that where a statute is concerned the actual words are fixed in law by the statute. It is the law in a fixed verbal form. When dealing with a judgment any common rules contained and constructed in the judgment are not fixing rules with specific words. It is said that decisions of judges state rules in an unfixed verbal format. Figure 4.13: the two issues as set out by Lord Bridge—issue 1

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So how can one begin to understand these issues? The immediate problems are: • unfamiliar vocabulary; • unfamiliar legal references; • complex grammatical structure; • dense (perhaps boring) text. The first task is to annotate the above text from the judgment to reveal the areas of lack of understanding, words and phrases that need defining and the areas of interconnection. This is similar in method to the annotation of s 3 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act (UCTA) 1977 in Chapter 3. This is done in Figure 4.13, below. But remember that where a statute is concerned the actual words are fixed in law by the statute. It is the law in a fixed verbal form. When dealing with a judgment any common rules contained and constructed in the judgment are not fixing rules with specific words. It is said that decisions of judges state rules in an unfixed verbal format.