Allison Wu

Re-examining lawful act duress: Pakistan International v Times Travel

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The persistent difficulty bedevilling the doctrine of economic duress is how to draw the line between legitimate and illegitimate economic pressure. Pakistan International Airline Corporation v Times Travel (UK Ltd) is concerned with the doctrine of lawful act economic duress and seeks to provide an insight into how this line might be drawn. This article notes that Pakistan […]

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Elgizouli v Secretary of State for the Home Department : Redefining the scope of common law constitutional rights?

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Introduction In Elgizouli v Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Supreme Court considered whether it was unlawful for the Secretary of State to authorise mutual legal assistance (“MLA”) to the United States in order to assist a criminal investigation which could lead to the imposition of the death penalty on a suspected British terrorist.1 This

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