Pao on v Lau Yiu Long
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1979 |
| Year | 1979 |
| Date | 1979 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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336 cases
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Hermus Cyrus v Christopher Wyllie
...does not preclude the formation of a contract. Learned Counsel also referred to the case of Pao On and others v Lau Yiu Long and Others 1980 A.C. p.614 where the Privy Council held that: "an act done before the giving of a promise could be valid consideration for that promise if the act had......
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RBTT (formerly known as the Nevis Co-operative Banking Company Ltd and the Caribbean Banking Corporation) Claimant v Almon Nisbett (by his Lawful Attorney, Masefield Nisbett) Defendant Almon Nisbett (by his Lawful Attorney, Masefield Nisbett) Claimant RBTT (formerly known as the Nevis Co-operative Banking Company Umited and the Caribbean Banking Corporation) Defendant [ECSC]
...economic duress. 32 Economic duress in a common law concept. In their submissions, both sides refer to the cases ofPao On v Lau Yiu Ling [1980] AC 61413 and Universe Tankship Inc. of Monrovia v International Transport Workers Federation and Others"14, which are important in the development ......
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Rainforest Trading Ltd v State Bank of India Singapore
...was fully drawn down. The appellants argued that the exception to the rule against past consideration established in Pao On v Lau Yiu Long[1980] AC 614 (‘Pao On’) was not applicable on the facts because the grant of and entrance into the loan facility by the respondent was not done at the r......
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2 firm's commentaries
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Court Of Appeal Summaries (March 27 31, 2017)
...2d ed. (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2012). A formulation of the test applicable to economic duress, taken from the Pao On v. Lau Yiu, [1979] 3 All E.R. 65 (P.C.), and cited in Stott, at para. 49 (WL Can), is: "the victim must have entered the contract against his will, must have had no alternative ......
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Long-Term LNG Agreements And Short-Term Volatility: Buyers Beware?
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25 books & journal articles
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Contract formation
...Mocatta J. 210 New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd v AM Satterthwaite & Co Ltd (he Eurymedon) [1975] AC 154 at 168 (PC); Pao On v Lau Yiu Long [1980] AC 614 at 632 (PC). 211 Wigan v Edwards (1973) 1 ALR 497 at 512–513, per Mason J [HCA]. See also Eden Construction Pty Ltd v State of NSW [2007] FCA ......
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VITIATING FACTORS IN CONTRACT LAW — THE INTERACTION OF THEORY AND PRACTICE
...Simon of Glaisdale: ibid at 121 (it should be noted, however, that the dissent was merely a factual (as opposed to a legal) one). 178 See [1980] AC 614 at 635—636. 179 See generally Atiyah, “Economic Duress and the ‘Overborne Will’”(1982) 98 LQR 197; Tiplady, “Concepts of Duress”(1983) 99 L......
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Consideration and Form
...benefits conferred with a gift intention. 113 Lord Scarman did not go on to observe that, where services are 109 Ibid at 255 (ER). 110 [1980] AC 614 (PC) [ Pao On ]. See also Re Casey’s Patents , [1892] 1 Ch 104. 111 Pao On , above note 110 at 630. 112 Ibid at 629. 113 See generally PD Mad......
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Duress, Undue Influence, and Unconscionability
...See, for example, Findlay v Findlay , [1951] 1 DLR 185 at 188–89 (Ont CA), aff’d [1952] 1 SCR 96. See also Pao On v Lau Yiu Long , [1980] AC 614 at 635 (PC) [ Pao On ]. In the context of threatened violence, however, it may be that these defences will be interpreted generously in favour of ......
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