Good faith in the performance of contracts / Elisabeth Peden, Daniel Reede, Jerry Leung.

St. Leonards, N.S.W. : LexisNexis Australia, 2026.

2nd edition

203472

Contracts -- Australia.

Good faith (law) -- Australia.

1. Importance of good faith, cooperation and construction

2. Construction and implication

3. Explanation from a historical perspective : devolpment of implied terms

4. Construction distinguished from implication in fact

5. Construction distinguished from implication in law

6. Incorporation of good faith and remedial consequences

7. The meaning of good faith in contract law

8. Good faith in other contexts.

Deeply grounded in authority, Good Faith in the Performance of Contracts 2nd edition provides a coherent account of what good faith can—and cannot—do in contract law. It is an essential resource for practitioners, judges, scholars and advanced students seeking clarity in an area long marked by uncertainty. Chapters 1 to 8, Good Faith in the Performance of Contracts 2nd edition traces the rise of good faith from a contested judicial aspiration to a recurring feature of contractual reasoning—while challenging many of the assumptions that have accompanied that rise. The later chapters explore the content, limits and implications of good faith in detail. They reassess leading cases, confront the uneasy association between good faith and reasonableness, and distinguish contractual good faith from related concepts found in statute, equity, insurance and fiduciary law. Features: Rigorous analysis ; Practical and attentive to commercial reality ; Guidance not only to courts but also to those who draft, negotiate and litigate contracts. - Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780409358162

xxxiii, 249 pages ; 25 cm