Occurs when one person illegally obtains property from another by actual or threatened force, fear, or violence, or under cover of official right.
They used the Bankruptcy Act for extortion in that he was threatened with Bankruptcy so he would sign the farm over to the Anglicans thinking he would be saved from Bankruptcy.
Simon Grant Lockhart ex District Court Judge
Timothy William Robertson Bankrupt & Simon Lockharts FRONT
The Day before the mortgagee sale of his farm at Kawa Kawa Bay Robertson came to see George Gillanders.
He said to him I have a sale to The Anglican Trust the price is $50,000 come up to Lockharts office and sign the deal.
He went with Robertson to Simon Lockharts office.
Read how they obtained G Gillanders farm by using the Bankruptcy Act for Extortion - Read Summary
They used the Bankruptcy Act for extortion of the farm. They played it out as far as they could to get the farm at their price and to keep the Official Assignee out of it.