Barton v Armstrong
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1973 |
| Date | 1973 |
| Year | 1973 |
| Court | Privy Council |
-
- This document is available in original version only for vLex customers
View this document and try vLex for 7 days - TRY VLEX
- This document is available in original version only for vLex customers
180 cases
-
Standard Chartered Bank v Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (No. 4) (Reduction of Damages)
...also had other inducements to enter into the transaction. There is an instance of that in the case of Edgington v Fitzmaurice." 68 In Barton v Armstrong [1976] A.C. 104, the House of Lords decided that a contract, entered into under duress, could be set aside under the equitable rule that e......
-
Tam Tak Chuen v Khairul bin Abdul Rahman
...to the plaintiff's decision to execute the decision, and his consent had not been vitiated. Alexander Baron v Alexander Ewan Armstrong [1976] AC 104 endorsed: at [62]. (5) The factors that have to be considered to disprove the second element include whether the person alleged to have been c......
-
State v Gobin; State v Griffith
...enter into a contract, but prevents the law from accepting what has happened as a contract valid in law [see the Privy Council case of Barton v. Armstrong and the judgments in the Supreme Court of New South Wale.]” 142 Lord Simon of Glaisdale said (p. 938): “Similarly with duress in the Eng......
-
BV Nederlandse Industrie Van Eiprodukten v Rembrandt Enterprises, Inc.
...was a factor in the claimant's decision and that but for it he might have acted differently — Ibid at [196]–[199], referring to Barton v Armstrong [1976] AC 104 and Barton v County NatWest [1999] Lloyd's Rep 408; and see also Dadourian Group International v Simms [2009] 1 Lloyd's Rep 601, 6......
Request a trial to view additional results
14 books & journal articles
-
Restitution
...in the first place. 20.7 The second point of interest is the test of causation applied by the court. The court accepted Barton v Armstrong[1976] AC 104 (PC, New South Wales), a case on duress to the person, as authoritative for economic duress as well: Tam Tak Chuen v Khairul Bin Abdul Rahm......
-
AN ACCOUNT OF ACCOUNTS
...Edwin Peel, Treitel on the Law of Contract (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 14th Ed, 2015) at para 20–095 ff; Barton v Armstrong[1973] UKPC 27; [1976] AC 104; Edgington v Fitzmaurice(1885) 29 Ch D 459; UCB Corporate Services v Williams[2002] EWCA Civ 555. 117 Hadley v Baxendale (1854) 9 Exch 341: ......
-
CONSUMER PROTECTION, STATUTE AND
...per Cotton LJ, 485, per Fry LJ. See also Nicholas v Thompson[1924] VLR 554 and Wilcher v Steain[1962] NSWR 1136. 134Barton v Armstrong[1976] AC 104 at 120, per Lords Wilberforce and Simon; see also 118, per Lord Cross. 135Henville v Walker[2001] HCA 52; (2001) 206 CLR 459. 136 Trade Practic......
-
VITIATING FACTORS IN CONTRACT LAW — THE INTERACTION OF THEORY AND PRACTICE
...(The Siboen and the Sibotre)[1976] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 292; noted Beatson (1976) 92 LQR 496. The Privy Council decision of Barton v Armstrong[1976] AC 104 is also relevant, although that case dealt, strictly speaking, with the more extreme situation of duress to the person; though cf the observat......
Request a trial to view additional results