Duty of good faith in long-term contracts

COMPASS GROUP (T/A MEDIREST) v MID ESSEX HOSPITAL NHS TRUST [2012]

This case shed light on how important a contractual obligation to co-operate in ‘good faith’ can be. A duty of ‘good faith’ is a concept imposed in many continental European jurisdictions but which is poorly defined in English law and has been comparatively rare in commercial contracts.

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