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21. The Universality of Good Faith and Moral Behaviour: A Challenge for the Principles of Asian Contract Law

Author : Mary E. Hiscock

Published in: Legal Thoughts between the East and the West in the Multilevel Legal Order

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Abstract

The principle of good faith is fundamental in the law of international trade. This global consensus derives from its origin in European civil law. A fair question to be asked is whether there is also a substantial consensus on its content and operation as it moves away from a European location. Also it should be discussed whether the principle of good faith has a place in contemporary Asian principles of contract law.

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Footnotes
1
See generally Warren (2010).
 
2
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, 11 April 1980, 1498 U.N.T.S. 3. There are 84 Contracting States.
 
3
See, for an assessment of the quantum and nature of the influence of the UNIDROIT PICC, Michaels (2014), p. 668.
 
4
This is by no means limited to Asia. There is a substantial body of reform of civil law, including national and regional laws.
 
5
See generally Han (2013).
 
6
See generally Lando and Beale (eds) (1999); Lando et al. (eds) (2003).
 
7
See Michaels (2014), p. 668.
 
8
American Law Institute.
 
10
See generally McConnaughay (2001).
 
11
Id., where McConnaughay refers to “the traditional Asian supposition that the written contract is tentative rather than final, unfolding rather than static, a source of guidance rather than determinative, and subordinate to other values”.
 
12
Kronke (2005), pp. 462–463, discussing the difference between Professors Bonell and Lando on the ideal status of the PICC.
 
13
See Han (2013), pp. 593, 598.
 
14
Zimmermann and Whittaker (eds) (2000), pp. 12–13. “Comparative studies normally focus on specific subject matter, problem areas, and real life situations, or on relatively well-defined legal institutions like mistake, agency or stipulation alteri. ‘Good Faith’ falls into none of these categories”.
 
15
See the case studies in Zimmermann and Whittaker (eds) (2000), Part II. Good faith is like a legislative acorn that has ripened into “a judicial oak that overshadows the contractual relationship of private parties”. Ebke and Steinhauer (1995), p. 171.
 
16
Walford et al. v. Miles et al., [1992] 2 A.C. 128, 138 (23 January 1992).
 
17
“The civilian position is much less uniform than a common lawyer might be led to believe, comparing the position of Germany and France”. Sonnenburger (1996), p. 703.
 
18
Emirates Trading Agency LLC v. Prime Mineral Exports Private Ltd., [2014] E.W.H.C. 283 (Comm.), 63–64 (1 July 2014).
 
19
There is an extensive discussion of the common law position in general and Australian law in particular in North East Solution Pty Ltd. v Masters Home Improvement Australia Pty Ltd. This enforced a contract provision to act reasonably and in good faith. North East Solution Pty Ltd. v. Masters Home Improvement Australia Pty Ltd. [2016] VSC 1, paras 56–72 (28 January 2016).
 
20
GDH Ltd. v. Creditor Co. Ltd., [2008] 5 H.K.L.R.D. 895 (24 October 2008); Ng Giap Hon v. Westcomb Securities Pte Ltd. et al., [2009] S.G.C.A. 19 (29 April 2009).
 
21
See this analysis by Allsop CJ in Paciocco v Australian and New Zealand Bank Group Ltd., [2015] 321 ALR 584, paras. 287–289 (8 April 2015).
 
22
See generally Allan et al. (eds) (1969).
 
23
See generally Allan et al. (eds) (1973–1981).
 
24
Hiscock and Allan (1982), pp. 509–529.
 
25
Yukichi (1871), pp. 68–69.
 
26
An example is J.H. Wigmore, the noted US Evidence scholar, who compiled a series of volumes on Law in Tokugawa Japan covering 2 centuries, completing this in 1935.
 
27
See generally Han (2013).
 
28
See generally Chen-Wishart et al. (eds) (2016).
 
29
See Zimmerman and Whittaker (2000), ch. 1.
 
30
China (1986), Singapore (1995), Mongolia (1997), Korea (2004) and Japan (2008).
 
31
Naoki Kanayama (2016), Principles of Asian Contract Law, pp. 1–2, 5, 9. http://​www.​law.​uchicago.​edu/​files/​file/​naoki_​kanayama-principles_​of_​asian_​contract_​law.​pdf. Accessed 24 March 2016.
 
32
See generally Han (2013).
 
33
United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, Possible Future Work in the Area of International Contract Law, U.N. Doc. A/CN.9/758 (8 May 2012).
 
34
Young Joon Kwon (2013), National Report: Republic of Korea. Paper presented at Expert Group Meeting on Contract Law Reform, 25–26 February 2013.
 
35
The full text is published in a special issue of the Asia Private Law Review, a publication of the (Korean) Research Institute for Asia Private Law (no. 4). See generally Lee (2010).
 
36
Han (2013), pp. 596–597.
 
37
 
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Metadata
Title
The Universality of Good Faith and Moral Behaviour: A Challenge for the Principles of Asian Contract Law
Author
Mary E. Hiscock
Copyright Year
2016
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Book
Legal Thoughts between the East and the West in the Multilevel Legal Order

Print ISBN: 978-981-10-1994-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-10-1995-1

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1995-1_21