Australia 12 March 1992, Appellate Court New South Wales (Renard Constructions v. Minister for Public Works)
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SELLER'S COUNTRY: Australia (plaintiff)
BUYER'S COUNTRY: Australia (defendant)
GOODS INVOLVED: Construction contract (pumping station)
APPLICATION OF CISG: No [obiter dicta reference to CISG]
APPLICABLE CISG PROVISIONS AND ISSUES
Key CISG provisions at issue: Article
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EDITOR: Albert H. Kritzer
CISG issues ruled upon:
Good faith. This is a litigation involving a construction contract entered into by Australian parties and governed by Australian domestic law. To support the proposition that good faith is widely recognized in contract law, Judge Priestly refers to "the ratification by a great many countries of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Good (Vienna, 11 April 1980), art. 7(1) of which requires regard to be had to the observance of good faith in international trade in the interpretation of the convention". This is the sole reference to the CISG in the opinion.
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(a) UNCITRAL abstract: Unavailable
(b) Other abstracts
English: Unilex database <http://www.unilex.info/case.cfm?pid=1&do=case&id=57&step=Abstract>
Italian: Diritto del Commercio Internazionale (1995) 443 No. 58
CITATIONS TO TEXT OF DECISION
Original language (English): 26 New South Wales LR (1992) 234-283 at 264; Lexis: COMCAS library, ENGCAS file; Unilex database (excerpt) <http://www.unilex.info/case.cfm?pid=1&do=case&id=57&step=FullText>
Translation: Unavailable
CITATIONS TO COMMENTS ON DECISION
English: Honnold, Uniform Law for International Sales (1999) 101 [Art. 7 (good faith)]; Farnsworth, The concept of "good faith" in American law, Rome (1993) "http://www.cnr.it/CRDS/Farnswrt.htm"; Goderre, 66 U. Cincinnati Law Rev. (1997) 276; Jones, Reasonableness, Honesty and Good Faith, International Sales Quarterly (March 1995) 8-10 [available on the Internet courtesy of CENTRAL Transnational Law Database (TLDB)]; Koneru, 6 Minnesota Journal of International Trade (1997) 105 [141 n.157]; Powers, 18 Journal of Law and Commerce (1999) 341 n.52, 347 n.101; Zeller, Leap forward towards unified international sales (May 2000) n.92; Zeller, Good Faith - The Scarlet Pimpernel of the CISG (May 2000); [2005] Schlechtriem & Schwenzer ed., Commentary on UN Convention on International Sale of Goods, 2d (English) ed., Oxford University Press, Art. 7 para. 30
German: Keinath, Der gute Glauben in UN-Kaufrecht [Good Faith under CISG], Thesis Konstanz (Hartung-Gorre 1997) 241-244
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