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Planning Update: Planning promotion agreements

Planning promotion agreements are becoming increasingly popular with both developers and landowners as an alternative to option agreements. In the first of two articles, Gavin Le Chat examines their workings ‘Many of the key issues which need to be considered in relation to promotion agreements are the same as those which need to be considered …

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Contract: Faith in the system

Alistair Maughan and Sarah Wells look at whether a duty of good faith can ever be implied into a contract? ‘English courts have long held that parties should have the freedom to contract in the way that they wish, and so have been reluctant to intervene and impose overriding obligations of good faith. However, two …

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Contract: Keep the faith

Helen Rose and Sean Ibbetson look at the lessons to be learned from Medirest Contracting parties may need to consider the effect of an obligation to act in good faith even where they have not agreed an express obligation to that effect.Obligations in commercial agreements to act in good faith are now common, particularly in …

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