{"id":75518,"date":"2016-10-28T11:13:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T11:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=de723604c7eb5ae6b1cd6a541dcc121f"},"modified":"2016-10-28T11:13:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T11:13:19","slug":"news-story-blog-post-about-unfair-contract-terms-and-why-fairness-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=75518","title":{"rendered":"News story: Blog post about unfair contract terms and why fairness matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>According to <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/uk-businesses-knowledge-of-unfair-terms-in-consumer-contracts\">research<\/a> more than half of businesses (54%) we surveyed are unsure of the law on unfair contract terms. Could this be you?<\/p>\n<p>Having fair contract terms can save you time and money, help protect your business and be good for your reputation, so <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/competitionandmarkets.blog.gov.uk\/2016\/10\/28\/consumer-ts-cs-why-fairness-matters\/\">we\u2019ve written a blog post<\/a> about why fairness in consumer contracts matters.<\/p>\n<p>Are you unsure about what makes a term \u2018unfair\u2019? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/video-guides-on-unfair-terms-in-consumer-contracts\">Watch<\/a> our animated films to help you understand the law on consumer contract terms and also visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/writing-fair-contracts-guidance-for-businesses\">www.gov.uk\/cma\/fair-contract-terms<\/a> for our full collection of guidance materials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to make sure the terms and conditions businesses use in consumer contracts are fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}