Economic Duress in Contract.
Im a bit confused on how economic duress cancels out consideration. Can they exist at the same time in contract law?
For example: if a business had agreed to supply apples to a supermarket for a certain amount of money , but there was floods outside of the factory and they could not deliver the apples for a day, which meant there was a backlog of stock. The business demands extra money from the super market to get more staff for the back log and more money for distribution ( because they had under-valued the contract) and the super market had to say yes because they were suffering a major loss by not having the apples for a few weeks.
How would consideration and economic duress be applied to this?
For example: if a business had agreed to supply apples to a supermarket for a certain amount of money , but there was floods outside of the factory and they could not deliver the apples for a day, which meant there was a backlog of stock. The business demands extra money from the super market to get more staff for the back log and more money for distribution ( because they had under-valued the contract) and the super market had to say yes because they were suffering a major loss by not having the apples for a few weeks.
How would consideration and economic duress be applied to this?
Have you read Williams v Roffey?
Yes, I'm just a bit stuck on how to actually write the questions as I know in Williams v Roffey bros that consideration for a pre-existing contractual relationship will not exist if there is economic duress. I was just wondering how to actually write that in a clear way and how to transition into the economic duress part of the question!
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Have you read Williams v Roffey?
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Im a bit confused on how economic duress cancels out consideration. Can they exist at the same time in contract law?
For example: if a business had agreed to supply apples to a supermarket for a certain amount of money , but there was floods outside of the factory and they could not deliver the apples for a day, which meant there was a backlog of stock. The business demands extra money from the super market to get more staff for the back log and more money for distribution ( because they had under-valued the contract) and the super market had to say yes because they were suffering a major loss by not having the apples for a few weeks.
How would consideration and economic duress be applied to this?
For example: if a business had agreed to supply apples to a supermarket for a certain amount of money , but there was floods outside of the factory and they could not deliver the apples for a day, which meant there was a backlog of stock. The business demands extra money from the super market to get more staff for the back log and more money for distribution ( because they had under-valued the contract) and the super market had to say yes because they were suffering a major loss by not having the apples for a few weeks.
How would consideration and economic duress be applied to this?
Hi, I’m trying to answer a similar scenario question to the one written above and I was wondering how you managed to approach the question. Any help would be appreciated.
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