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I quite agree that the more unreasonable a clause is, the greater the notice which must be given of it. Some clauses I have seen would need to be printed in red ink on the face of the document with a red hand pointing to it before the notice could be held to be sufficient.

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— Lord Denning, discussing contract clauses (in the days before the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977) in Spurling v Bradshaw (1956)

Source

J Spurling Ltd v Bradshaw [1956] EWCA Civ 3, [1956] 2 All ER 121, [1956] 1 Lloyd's Rep 392, [1956] 1 WLR 461 (26 March 1956), Court of Appeal (England and Wales) at BAILII