Akillius, on 31 July 2019 - 04:12 PM, said:
There's something interesting about Canadian contract law:
http://web.archive.o...ng-parties.html
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In perhaps the most important contract decision of the past 20 years, the Supreme Court of Canada today established a general doctrine of good faith between parties and a specific duty of honesty — opening up the civil courts to a potential wave of lawsuits based on perceived deceptions.
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The decision states: “… there is a common law duty which applies to all contracts to act honestly in the performance of contractual obligations. … The organizing principle of good faith exemplifies the notion that, in carrying out his or her own performance of the contract, a contracting party should have appropriate regard to the legitimate contractual interests of the contracting partner.”
Brandon Kain, a litigator at McCarthy Tétrault LLP who represented Bhasin, says the case has “massive implications” for businesses across Canada. The ruling creates new law around an overarching doctrine of good faith from which many specific duties may extend.
“That overarching principle can give rise to various duties, and the court doesn’t define what the outer limits of those duties are,” he says. “In this case, one of those duties is a duty of honest performance in contracting, which means basically that parties can’t lie or knowingly mislead each other with respect to the performance of their contractual obligations.”
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“The other side followed the letter of the contract and since there was nothing in the contract about good faith, they weren’t going to imply a duty into it,” says Finkelstein.
“What the Supreme Court here said is, ‘No, that’s wrong. There is — and this is an organizing principle of contract, the court said, as an organizing principle of contract, you don’t have to write it in. There’s an obligation of good faith and that includes at least honest dealing.”
Also see:
https://www.american.../04/02_kierans/
DemonRaziel, on 31 July 2019 - 10:34 AM, said:
+ cloud saves, shopping cart...
Ah, forgot those. Yes, such basic **** we take for granted on Steam and Epic hasn't got a handle on yet...
frumpylumps, on 31 July 2019 - 07:30 PM, said:
This whole debacle really shows you how stupid the masses really are.
Steam needs competition and that far outweighs the inconvenience of using another platform even if it is inferior.
I support this move by PGI.
An inferior platform by definition isn't competitive with Steam.
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