Rule of Law:
Discharge of contract by actual breach.
A breach of contract is when the involved parties in the contract break or acted against the
stated terms of the contract. “Not all the terms of a contract are written down. A breach
may be of a verbally agreed term, a written term, or an ‘implied’ term of a contract.” (“Sue
My Boss”, 2013, para. 2). When a person openly declares that he/she will not perform
his/her part of the contract terms, this is an intention to breach the contract by repudiating
their liability from the contract before the expiration of his performance or time is
required. This repudiation can be classified under an anticipatory breach where a party
could have declared in advance or an actual breach when it is a deliberate act of breaching
the contract.
Economic Duress
The act of forcing one party into giving in to another party demands through means of a
refusal to uphold his end of the contract causing ‘economic duress’ or a duress where
threat is made in respect of a person’s assets (goods): Atlas Express v Kafco.
Part III of Criminal Law (Temporary Provsions) Act (Chapter 64, Section 6)
Under the CLTPA of Singapore, it is stated that no employees unless specified, are allowed
to participate in illegal strikes without giving the employer 14 days of notice of intention to
strike.
“No workman employed in any essential service, not being an essential service specified in
subsection (1), shall go on strike – (a) unless at least 14 days before striking he has given
