Duress Flashcards
Skeate v Beale [1840]
duress of goods does not count as duress
Barton v Armstrong [1976]
threats to kill, duress to the person
Occidental Worldwide Investment Corporation v Skibs A/S Avanti (The Siboen and The Sibotre) [1976]
economic threats can be duress, not on facts
Pao on v Lau Yiu Long [1980]
‘coercion of the will’
Universe Tankships Inc of Monrovia v ITWF (The Universe Sentinel) [1983]
economic duress; key question is illegitimacy of threat
Dimskal Shipping Co SA v ITWF (The Evia Luck) (No 2) [1992]
strike threat: illegitimacy and threat must be a ‘significant cause’
B&S Contracts and Designs Ltd v Victor Green Publications Ltd [1984]
threat to breach (strike) was economic duress
Atlas Express v Kafco Ltd [1989]
threat to breach (deliveries) was economic duress
Huyton SA v Peter Cremer [1999]
causation in economic duress
The Port Caledonia and The Anna [1903]
admiralty law treats threat of lawful act (not to save ship) as duress
CTN Cash and Carry v Gallaher [1994]
threat not to contract in future not duress
Pakistan International Airlines Corporation v Times Travel (UK) Ltd [2021]
UKSC recognises possibility of lawful act duress; different tests proposed
