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Feb 6, 2012 · Published Online February 6, 2012. Last Edited October 30, 2020. A contract is a legally binding agreement between two or more persons for a particular purpose. It is an instrument for the economic exchange of goods and services. In Canada, contract law is administered both in common law and, in Quebec, civil law.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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".
An often challenging question is what can constitute valid consideration for an exchange. The general rule is that consideration must be “sufficient”. “Sufficient” consideration means that the value of the consideration exchanged by each party to the contract is deemed sufficient by the law to create a legally binding agreement.
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Supreme Court of Canada Decision (February 2010) In a 5 – 4 decision of the SCC, the appeal of Tercon was allowed. While the entire court agreed on the appropriate framework of analysis in reviewing whether a party can avoid the effect of an exclusion clause, they were divided on how the formula applied to the facts of Tercon.
