This poster is relevant to AQA Paper 3A and OCR Component 3.
Threats to coerce a party into a contract have long been recognised at common law. Economic duress (ED) occurs where there has been a threat to a person’s financial situation, or where one party to a contract is in a stronger bargaining position than another. The courts will draw a line between ordinary commercial pressure (the ‘rough and tumble’ of everyday business) and illegitimate pressure.
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