Overview
- Covers the current state of the law concerning good faith in contractual performance in Australia
- Shows that there is still inconsistency in the support of judges towards the issue of good faith in Australia
- Suggests that good faith can be defined by way of ‘multi-categories’ involving a combination of a number of expressions or terminologies that describe the concept
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- Good faith in contract law
- Good faith in contractual performance
- Good faith and contractual performance
- Good faith and contract law
- The status of good faith in Law
- Good faith and legal perspectives
- Good faith and Unconscionability
- Good faith and Fiduciary obligation
- Good faith and Non-degoration from grant
- Good faith and Common law duty to cooperate
- Good Faith in Australian Context
- The Development of Good Faith
About this book
In Australia, good faith received wide attention after Priestly J introduced in his obiter comments in Renard Construction (ME) v Minister for Works (1992) 26 NSWLR 234.This book focuses on the attitude of the judges to good faith, the definition of good faith, and the possibility of legislating a good faith obligation in Australian contract law. This book also discusses the issues surrounding its development, its meaning, and acceptance at the international level.The empirical legal research adopted in this book will offer a significant contribution in understanding the concept of good faith in Australia from the empirical perspective.
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Book Title: Good Faith in Contractual Performance in Australia
Authors: Nurhidayah Abdullah
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6078-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6077-4Published: 02 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6080-4Published: 03 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-6078-1Published: 01 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 251
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations
Topics: Fundamentals of Law, Philosophy of Law, Commercial Law, Common Contract Law