Occidental Worldwide Investment Corporation v Skibs A/S Avanti (Siboen, Sibotre)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1976
Date1976
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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2 firm's commentaries
  • The Final Word On Lawful Act Duress?
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 19 November 2021
    ...a basis for obtaining restitution of non-contractual payments). However, in Occidental Worldwide Investment Corpn v Skibs A/S Avanti [1976] 1 Lloyd's Rep 293, Kerr J the submission that 'English law only knows duress to the person and duress to goods'. Similarly, in North Ocean Shipping Co ......
  • The Final Word On Lawful Act Duress?
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 19 November 2021
    ...a basis for obtaining restitution of non-contractual payments). However, in Occidental Worldwide Investment Corpn v Skibs A/S Avanti [1976] 1 Lloyd's Rep 293, Kerr J the submission that 'English law only knows duress to the person and duress to goods'. Similarly, in North Ocean Shipping Co ......
6 books & journal articles
  • Duress, Undue Influence, and Unconscionability
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books The Law of Contracts. Third Edition Vitiating Factors
    • 4 August 2020
    ...Pao On , above note 9 at 617. 30 See Occidental Worldwide Investment Corp v Skibs A/S Avanti ( sub nom The Siboen and The Sibotre ), [1976] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 293 (QB); North Ocean Shipping , above note 11. 31 It seems, however, that “economic duress” is not restricted in its scope to threatened......
  • EQUITY AND OPPORTUNISM IN THE LAW OF CONTRACT:
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2018, December 2018
    • 1 December 2018
    ...165. 178Occidental Worldwide Investment Corp v Skibs A/S Avainti, Skibs A/S Glarona, Skibs A/S Navalis (The Siboen and the Sibotre)[1976] 1 Lloyd's Rep 293. 179[1980] AC 614. 180North Ocean Shipping Co Ltd v Hyundai Construction Co Ltd[1979] QB 705. 181(1860) 2 Giff 166; (1860) 2 De G F & J......
  • FRESH CONSIDERATION RULE: INSIGHTS FROM ITS RESURRECTION IN QUACH V MITRUX SERVICES LTD.
    • Canada
    • University of British Columbia Law Review Vol. 54 No. 2, September 2021
    • 15 September 2021
    ...AC 614, [1979] 3 All ER 65, [1979] UKPC 17 [Pao On]. See also Occidental Worldwide Investment v Skibs (The Siboen and The Sibotre), [1976] 1 Lloyd's Rep 293 (QB); North Ocean Shipping Co v Hyundai Construction Co (The Atlantic Baron), [1979] 1 QB 705, 3 WLR 419. These cases also dealt with ......
  • It's time exemplary damages were part of the judicial armory in contract
    • Australia
    • University of Western Australia Law Review No. 40-1, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...should contract (at 1.17-1.73); see also Occidental Worldwide Investment Corporation v Skibs A/S Avanti (The Siboen and The Sibotre) [1976] 1 Lloyd's Rep 293. 180The Law Commission, above n 17, 1.288. 181[1974] 2 All ER 321. 182Wrotham Park Estate Co Ltd v Parkside Homes Ltd [1974] 2 All ER......
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