Self-induced duress

Self-induced duress

If a defendant puts himself in a position where he is likely to be put under duress to commit a crime, then the defendant cannot use this self-induced duress as a defence. In Hasan (2005) the House of Lords held that the defence of duress is excluded where the defendant voluntarily associates with others who are engaged in criminal activity and he foresaw or ought reasonably to have foreseen the risk of being subjected to any compulsion by threats of violence.