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Mar 12, 2021 · The Supreme Court of Canada in two recent decisions has continued to clarify and explain the scope of the principle of good faith, which was recognized by the SCC in 2014 as an organizing principle of contract law. The first of these decisions, Callow v. Zollinger, 2020 SCC 45 dealt with one aspect of good faith in contracts: the duty to perform contracts honestly. More recently, the Court ...
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In general, contracts are always formed on the same pattern. A person offers to give another person something (for example: to deliver an item in return for a certain price); to provide a service (to work for a certain salary); or to refrain from doing something (not to competefor a period of time in return for compensation). If the offer is accept...
The four most common types of contracts are: 1. the contract of sale, whereby a person acquires the ownership of property in return for payment; 2. the lease and hire of services, whereby a person offers his services to another in return for payment; 3. the lease and hire of things, whereby a person is temporarily granted the use of property (e.g.,...
Unlike other agreements, a contract is a legally binding promise. If one of the parties fails or refuses to fulfil its promise without a valid reason recognized by law, the party suffering the consequence of this breach of promise may call upon the courts either to force the defaulting party to carry out its promise (specific performance) or to dem...
For a contract to be valid and therefore legally binding, five conditions must be met. First, there must be the mutual consent of both parties. No one can be held to a promise involuntarily made. When consent is given by error, either under physical or moral duress, or as a result of fraudulent practices, the contract may be declared null and void ...
Parties to a valid contract are always bound by law to carry out their promise. Should they fail to, the other party is free to go to court to force them to comply. At times, the court may order the defaulting party to do exactly what he had promised (specified promise). In that respect, civil law provides more readily for the forced execution of p...
Increasingly, provincial and federal legislatures are acting to protect citizens against certain abusive commercial practices. Consumer protection law, in which rules and standards are imposed to suppress fraud, to avoid forced sales and to protect the consumer against dishonest practices, is an example of this type of action. The Quebec Civil Code...
Dec 21, 2020 · In Callow, the Supreme Court of Canada held that: Parties to a contract have a duty of honest performance, as the Court first recognized six years ago in Bhasin v. Hrynew. [2] This duty “applies to the performance of all contracts and, by extension, to all contractual obligations and rights”. [3] Further, parties are “not free to exclude ...
In Bhasin v Hrynew, [1] a unanimous Supreme Court of Canada recognized that good faith contractual performance is a general organizing principle of Canadian common law, and that parties to a contract are under a duty to act honestly in the performance of their contractual obligations. The case is the first time our highest court has examined ...
Jan 19, 2016 · The Court of Appeal canvassed the law regarding the limited circumstances in which a Court will imply the terms in a contract. First, the Court held that a contractual term can be implied "on the basis of the presumed intentions of the parties where necessary to give business efficacy to the contract".
The Supreme Court acknowledged that construing words the parties have used and implying terms into a contract are different processes and are governed by different rules. However, the two are closely connected in the sense that it is only after the express terms of a contract have been construed that the question of whether additional terms should be implied can be considered.
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A contract does not exist until there has been a definite offer and an unqualified and unconditional acceptance of the offer communicated to the offerer. There is also a general rule, however, that a court should interpret a contract, if possible, so as to make it work.
