The Implied Term of Good Faith and Fair Dealing: Recent Developments

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • O'Byrne, Shannon

• This article assists common law practitioners to predict when good faith obligations are owed in the context of contractual performance by organizing recent case law. The article concludes by advocating for express recognition of a common law rule that would mandate good faith as the governing, default standard out of which parties must expressly contract.

• Date created

  2007

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Contracts--Laws, regulations and rules
  • Government regulation
  • Good faith (Law)--Laws, regulations and rules
  • Breach of contract--Laws, regulations and rules

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3VX06571

• License

  © 2007 Shannon O'Byrne This version of this article is open access and can be downloaded and shared. The original author(s) and source must be cited.