Breach of contract

ParkerstNick

KeithP said:

ParkerstNick said:

Le_Kirk said:

The contract is the signage and, having read it (assuming there is  suitable sign at a readable level with legible writing) and stayed in the car park, you/she are deemed to have accepted the terms of the contract.

A contract must have a number of recognisable elements to be enforceable. eg offer of terms, acceptance of those terms, consideration given, intention by both parties to contract etc. The signage is not the contract, but may be the offer of terms.

Would you agree that the signs offer the terms?
By parking, it is claimed the motorist has accepted those terms.

That's certainly what the Supreme Court thought.

The only practical way that the PPC can offer terms is by signage. Otherwise they would have to have a lackey handing out contracts to parkers, announce terms over a PA system or project them into people's conscious thought with mind-control beams! The motorist has to have an offer which can be deemed as accepted, if only by his behaviour in subsequently parking.