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No duty to negotiatein good faith

In Knatchbull-Hugessen v SISU Capital Ltd [2014] EWHC 1194 (QB), Leggatt J declined to imply into the contract between the parties a term that the parties would conduct negotiations in good faith and, in particular, that the claimant would not do anything to render impossible or materially to impede the performance of the conditions precedent to the existence of a binding contract.

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