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Lawful acts can amount to economic duress, rendering a contract voidable

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 12 2012

The lawful conduct was hard bargaining (generally OK in a commercial setting) but it amounted to economic duress in Progress Bulk Carriers Ltd v Tube City IMS LLC, 2012 EWHC 273 (Comm

Is a charterparty a contract for carriage of goods by water?

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • November 17 2011

Companhia Siderurgica Paulista (COSIPA), BLG’s client, concluded a Gencon-form voyage charterparty with Fednav (disponent owner of the defendant vessel), for the carriage of steel coils from Brazil to the U.S.A. and Canada

Planes, trains and automobiles: starring CP and the Teamsters

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
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  • October 26 2010

Earlier this year, on a clear March day, a CP train traveling near Revelstoke, British Columbia, failed to respond to a stop signal and broadsided another CP train at a speed of 27mph