Kaufman v Gerson
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 1904 |
| Date | 1904 |
| Year | 1904 |
| Court | Court of Appeal |
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28 cases
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Ajt v Aju
...SLR 661 (refd) Foster v Driscoll [1929] 1 KB 470 (folld) Kamini Kumar Basu v Birendra Nath BasuAIR 1930 PC 100 (folld) Kaufman v Gerson [1904] 1 KB 591 (distd) Lemenda Trading Co Ltd v African Middle East Petroleum Co Ltd [1988] QB 448 (folld) Ooi Kiah Inn Charles v Kukuh Maju Industries Sd......
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Royal Boskalis Westminster N.v v Mountain
...the Finalisation Agreement and the waiver of claims at the behest of the Iraqis. The principle was established in Kaufman -v- Gerson [1904] 1 K.B. 591. Moreover whether or not a Court today would regard the degree of coercion exercised in that case as sufficient to constitute duress and so ......
- Ertel Bieber & Company v Rio Tinto Company ; Dynamit Actien-Gesellschaft v Rio Tinto Company ; Vereinigte Koenigs and Laurahuette Actien-Gesellschaft v Rio Tinto Company
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Westacre Investments Inc. v (1) Jugoimport-Skrp Holding Company Ltd (2) Beogradska Banka (3) The Federal Directorate of Supply and Procurement of The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (4) Beogradska Banka Dd (5) The State Owned Company Yugoimport Spdr
...in England. It is at this stage that, in my judgment, it becomes relevant to consider the law of Qatar. The significant fact in Kaufman v. Gerson was that the contractual adventure was not contrary to French law and the contract was valid and enforceable in France. In the present case Qatar......
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3 books & journal articles
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CONTRACTUAL ILLEGALITY AND CONFLICT OF LAWS
...that it was not against the public policy of French law to enforce gaming contracts governed by French law. See also Kaufman v. Gerson[1904] 1 K.B. 591. 136 Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart v. Slatford [1953] 1 Q.B. 248 at 266. 137 See the Lemenda case [1988] 1 Q.B. 448 and the Shaikh Faisal......
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EQUITY AND OPPORTUNISM IN THE LAW OF CONTRACT:
...The Cambridge Law Journal 97 at 97–98, citing a number of venerable sources including Sir Edward Coke's 2 Inst 483, Kaufman v Gerson[1904] 1 KB 591 and Skeate v Beale(1841) 11 Ad & El 983. 148 Jack Beatson, “Duress as a Vitiating Factor in Contract” (1974) 33(1) The Cambridge Law Journal 97......
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Canadian contractual duress and criminal duress: "irrational, anomalous, perverse, illogical and fundamentally wrong" or just misunderstood?
...of dealing with this question. BOYLE & PERCY, supra note 3, at 716. (318.) MCCAMUS, supra note 156, at 369. (319.) Kaufman v. Gerson, [1904] 1 K.B. 591 (320.) Id. at 595. (321.) Id. at 597. (322.) Id. (323.) Id. at 599. (324.) Saxon v. Saxon, [1976] 4 W.W.R. 300-01, aff'd in [1978] 4 W.W.R.......