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DSND Subsea Ltd v Petroleum Geo-Services ASA [2001] 117 LQR 376

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United Kingdom
By Oxbridge Law Team
Dyson J

  • A threatened to break a contract unless B agreed to a modification of it, which B did, before seeking a declaration that the modification of the contract was void under economic duress.

  • In this case the threat to breach was NOT economic duress because there was no contemporaneous evidence that the threat had actually put B under duress.

Dyson J

  • In determining whether there has been illegitimate pressure, threatened or actual breach of contract is only one of several factors e.g. good faith, realistic practical alternative for Defendant, protest by the victim, and whether Defendant sought to rely on or affirm the contract.

  • Had there been duress, he would have voided the contract. 

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