Consider contract law requirements around avoidance and duress. Is there any advice you can provide to James? You will need to perform research on Australian Consumer Law to answer this question. ACL is contained in Volume 3, Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010. If a business exerts unreasonable pressure onto a party in order to force them to sign a contract, they are coercing the party into signing. This includes economic pressure. Knowing this, you must use the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 to identify what options James may have available to them, in order to escape the contract