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What is bad faith?

What is bad faith? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law) A malicious motive by a party in a lawsuit. This has an effect on the ability to maintain causes of action and obtain legal remedies.
  2. (law) Intent to deceive or mislead another to gain some advantage; dishonesty or fraud in a transaction (such as knowingly misrepresenting the quality of something that is being bought or sold).
  3. (philosophy) The existentialist concept of denying one's total freedom of will.
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The respondents have brought forward no evidence that the directors decided to approve the payment of compensation dishonestly or in bad faith.
Warne clearly broke the rules, and in terms of his confessions has been clearly acting in bad faith.
That doesn't necessarily mean they made the argument in bad faith or that the war might not still be justified on other lines.
Well he says that it would require very strong evidence to prove that a pharmaceutical company is acting in bad faith.
But I challenge Stoll to cite a single instance where a takedown request made in bad faith resulted in action against the complainant.
In his opinion, traders acting in bad faith must also face criminal liability in addition to the revocation of their licences.

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