Is there any case law in which a person who has been threatened with a demand that they comply with the threat?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Circuit Graphics Ltd. v. Canadian Association of Industrial Mechanical and Allied Workers, Loc. 1, 1981 CanLII 591 (BC SC):

A further statement of Lord Denning in Stratford v. Lindley, supra, also emphasizes that it is essential to the cause of action for intimidation that the person threatened "must comply with the demand".

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