Economic Duress in UK Law
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Universe Tankships Inc. of Monrovia v International Transport Workers Federation (Marine)
... ... received, since it was exacted by subjecting the Shipowners to economic duress. To determine whether the Shipowners can succeed on either of these ... ...
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Williams v Roffey Bros & Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd
... ... relatively recent development which is relevant, namely, that of economic duress. Clearly if a sub-contractor has agreed to undertake work at a ... ...
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Woolwich Equitable Building Society v Commissioners of Inland Revenue
... ... 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
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R v Howe; R v Bannister; R v Burke; R v Clarkson
... ... 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 ... ...
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DPP for Northern Ireland v Lynch
... ... 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 ... ...
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Cosimo Borelli (as liquidator of AKAI Holdings Ltd) and Others v Mr James Henry Ting and Others
... ... return for the withdrawal of that opposition, which amounted to economic duress and also rendered the Settlement Agreement voidable ... 20 ... ...
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Times Travel (UK) Ltd v Pakistan International Airlines Corporation
... ... well-established that a contract may be avoided on the grounds of economic duress, although its scope remains uncertain. This appeal concerns the ... ...
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Adams v Cape Industries Plc
... ... (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 ... ...
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Radmacher (formerly Granatino) v Granatino
... ... "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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