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Some say that, like most things in life, a contract will inevitably come to an end. As recently confirmed by the SCC, that may not always be true. The Supreme Court of Canada confirms that [...]

In this series of posts, we’ve considered minimum standards of behaviour, including the duty of honesty, duty of good faith and duty to be reasonable, when exercising contractual rights. The duty [...]

This is the third in a series of posts that unpacks the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2014 decision in Bhasin v. Hrynew and looks at how conduct matters in commercial contracts, sometimes more [...]

This is the second in a series of posts that unpacks the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2014 decision in Bhasin v. Hrynew and looks at how conduct matters in commercial contracts, sometimes more [...]

Courts in common law jurisdictions in Canada have historically been reluctant to impose certain minimum standards of conduct on commercial contracting parties out of a concern that doing so will [...]