Economic Duress in UK Law

  • Universe Tankships Inc. of Monrovia v International Transport Workers Federation (Marine)
    • House of Lords
    • 01 April 1982
    ... ... received, since it was exacted by subjecting the Shipowners to economic duress. To determine whether the Shipowners can succeed on either of these ... ...
  • Williams v Roffey Bros & Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 November 1989
    ... ... relatively recent development which is relevant, namely, that of economic duress. Clearly if a sub-contractor has agreed to undertake work at a ... ...
  • Woolwich Equitable Building Society v Commissioners of Inland Revenue
    • House of Lords
    • 20 July 1992
    ... ... was an alternative submission that the money had been paid under duress and was therefore immediately recoverable. On behalf of the Crown it was ... concept of duress has in recent years been expanded to embrace economic duress. (b) Money paid to a person in a public ... ...
  • Pao on v Lau Yiu Long
    • Privy Council
    • 1979
  • R v Howe; R v Bannister; R v Burke; R v Clarkson
    • House of Lords
    • 19 February 1987
    ... ... certified questions are: "(1) Is duress available as a defence to a person charged with murder as a principal in ... Fear of violence does not differ in kind from fear of economic ills, fear of displeasing others, or any other determinant of choice, it ... ...
  • DPP for Northern Ireland v Lynch
    • House of Lords
    • 12 March 1975
    ... ... at the trial was that all that he had done had been done under duress and that he was entitled to be acquitted ... 3 The course followed at ... Fear of violence does not differ in kind from fear of economic ills, fear of displeasing others, or any other determinant of choice; it ... ...
  • Cosimo Borelli (as liquidator of AKAI Holdings Ltd) and Others v Mr James Henry Ting and Others
    • Privy Council
    • 29 July 2010
    ... ... return for the withdrawal of that opposition, which amounted to economic duress and also rendered the Settlement Agreement voidable ... 20 ... ...
  • Times Travel (UK) Ltd v Pakistan International Airlines Corporation
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 May 2019
    ... ... well-established that a contract may be avoided on the grounds of economic duress, although its scope remains uncertain. This appeal concerns the ... ...
  • Adams v Cape Industries Plc
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 July 1989
    ... ... (4) in the section of this judgment dealing with the "single economic unit" argument and in the Appendix. We shall consider the contention that ... his protestations that he had "only appeared under pressure, duress and compulsion of law", the English court could properly have enforced the ... ...
  • Radmacher (formerly Granatino) v Granatino
    • Supreme Court
    • 20 October 2010
    ... ... "This is aimed at redressing any significant prospective economic disparity between the parties arising from the way they conducted their ... As to the last sentence, this focuses on one possible type of duress. But duress can be applied both before and after the marriage. The same ... ...
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