Good Faith in Contractual Performance: The Supreme Court’s Confusing Lesson in Wallace v. United Grain Growers Ltd

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • O'Byrne, Shannon

• In Wallace v. United Grain Growers Ltd. l the Supreme Court of Canada was asked to remedy the alleged bad faith by an employer, both for the fact of dismissing the plaintiffand for its manner ofeffecting thedismissal . This marks the first time that Canada's highest court has had to decide whether an indeterminate employment contract contains an implied term not to dismiss an employee, absent a good faith reason to do so, as well as whether a harsh manner ofdismissal falling short ofthe standard articulated in Vorvis v .Insurance Corp. ofBritish Colunzbia,2 can nonetheless found a cause of action in contract or in tort .

• Date created

  1998

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Employers
  • Supreme Court--
  • Bad faith(law)--
  • Contracts
  • Employment

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R30P0WT3Q

• License

  © 1998 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.