Economic Duress in UK Law
- Whither Economic Duress? Reflections on Two Recent Cases
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Understanding Intimidation
This article examines the gist, vitality and practical utility of the tort of intimidation and identifies what count as unlawful threats and as actionable harm. While two versions of the tort have ...... ... under the law of contract via the doctrines of anticipatory breach, duress and economic duress. The article concludes with two radical suggestions ... ...
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From Circular Migrants in the Mines to Transnational Polygynists in the Townships: A Century of Transformation in Central Mozambican Male Migration Regimes (1900‐1999)
This article tracks the most significant transformations in the international migration regime between central Mozambique and South Africa throughout the twentieth century as the product of complex...... ... and continu- ous interactions between the broader political-economic environment and local forms of gendered and inter-generational social ... deployment as a strategy for coping with various forms of political duress, seizing new economic opportunity, and negotiating local social relations, ... ...
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Contract, Consideration and the Critical Path
... ... although the case does not itself involve any element of duress, by relaxing the consideration requirement, it shifts the burden of regulating price re-negotiation on tlo the doctrine of economic duress.’ In Williams v Roffey , the defendants were main ... ...
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Subject Index
... ... effect of Standard form contracts construction Voidable economic duress, for OUR LAW, TORT 270 390 266 169 452 409 533 8 580 ... ...
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Dures, Family Law and the Coherent Legal System
... ... November 1994) Duress, Family Law and the Coherent Legal System exercise the right ... Atiyah, ‘Economic Duress and the “Overborne Will”’ (1982) 98 LQR 197, at ... ...
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NOTES OF CASES
... ... NOTES OF CASES ECONOMIC DURESS THE immediate effect of the decision of the ... ...
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Social Concertation in Times of Austerity, by Alexandre Afonso. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2013, 258 pp., ISBN: 978 9 08964 3957, $43.95, paperback.
... ... of concertation in Western Europe in spite of a hostile political-economic environment. The study focuses on two ‘destabilizing’ factors, namely ... of trade unions) factors, employer interests, political-economic duress (i.e. weak governments facing high ‘problem load’), and the ... ...
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The Politics of Work‐Family Policies. Comparing Japan, France, Germany and the United States, by Patricia Boling. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 268pp., ISBN: 978‐1‐107‐09812‐1.
... ... W hile periods of economic duress raise understandable questions about the feasibility of change, ... ...
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NOTES OF CASES
... ... NOTES OF CASES REMEDIES FOR ECONOMIC Loss AGAINST A SUB-AGENT THE tentative recognition of recovery ... * INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT, BREACH OF CONTRACT AND DURESS D CONTRACTS to provide a service for P. Before performance, ... ...
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