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On 18 August 2021, the Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited judgment on economic duress in Times Travel (UK) Limited v Pakistan International Airlines Corp

This is a significant decision on a key topic in contract law. The Supreme Court clarified the elements of economic duress, and recognised that 鈥渓awful act economic duress鈥� might, in rare instances, render a contract voidable. However, lawful act duress could not, on any view, be established on the facts of the case, and there was disagreement between the Justices regarding what needs to be shown for a claim for lawful act economic duress to succeed.听

Professor Paul Davies (Professor of Commercial Law at the 新香港六合彩开奖结果Faculty of Laws) acted for the successful respondent in the appeal, together with Nigel Jones QC and Tom Bell of Gatehouse Chambers. Professor Davies is a member of Essex Court Chambers, and a summary of the case can also be found on the .听

His work on duress was cited by Lord Burrows in his judgment, and has also recently been relied upon by the New Zealand Court of Appeal in Dold v Murphy [2020] [69], [77]-[78], which cited Professor Davies鈥� inaugural lecture on , originally presented at 新香港六合彩开奖结果in 2019.听
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