Marriage or Prison

ENCLISII authority concerning the effect of duress on the validity of marriage is quite scarce and, so far as some of the early cases are concerned, unreliable.a Therefore Scarman J.'s rcccnt judgment in Buckland v. Buclcland is of interest on several counts. It is, for example, both the first reported English case to offer a tolerably comprehensive guide to the principles which are applicable in such cases and it is the first reported case before an English court in which a male petitioner has sought the annulment of his marriage on the grounds of duress and where the grounds of such duress have been the arrest and possible imprisonment of the pctitioncr

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