What is the duty of good faith in a contract?
New Brunswick, Canada
The following excerpt is from Taylor v Everett Lord, 2016 NBQB 88 (CanLII):
I add to this discussion the now settled state of the law that there exists a positive duty of good faith in contractual obligations (see Bhasin v. Hrynew, 2014 SCC 71, [2014] 3 S.C.R. 494) including the type of contract at issue here.
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