Economic Duress and a Drop of Fairness: A Singapore Perspective

Publication Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2003

Abstract

The Singapore High Court considered the doctrine of economic duress recently in the case Sharon Global Solutions Pte Ltd v L G International (Singapore) Pte Ltd. This note considers the issues surrounding the relevant test for economic duress as well as the factors that should be present before a finding of economic duress can be substantiated. It is argued that the test, in the interest if clarity of analysis, should be a bifurated one, and further, that unconscionable conduct, as a factor of duress, has a crucial role to play.

Keywords

Coercion, Economic duress, Singapore, Unconscionability

Discipline

Asian Studies | Commercial Law | Contracts

Publication

Journal of Business Law

Volume

2003

Issue

6

First Page

572

Last Page

583

ISSN

0021-9460

Publisher

Sweet and Maxwell

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