From: Robert Stevens <robert.stevens@law.ox.ac.uk>
To: obligations@uwo.ca
CC: enrichment@lists.mcgill.ca
Date: 15/05/2019 06:57:30 UTC
Subject: lawful act duress

Interesting decision of the Court of Appeal on lawful act duress yesterday.


https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2019/828.html


The headline is


"the doctrine of lawful act duress does not extend to the use of lawful pressure to achieve a result to which the person exercising pressure believes in good faith it is entitled, and that is so whether or not, objectively speaking, it has reasonable grounds for that belief." [105]


That can't be right. imo. fwiiw.


best

Rob