Taqa Bratani Ltd and Others v Rockrose UKCS8 LLC – QBD (Comm Ct) (HHJ Pelling QC sitting as a Judge of the High Court) [2020] EWHC 58 (Comm) – 17 January 2020

Contract – Implied terms – Claimants serving notices terminatingappointment of defendant as Operator of oil and gas field blocks in North Sea –Whether claimants obliged to justify decision to terminate – Whether contract containedimplied term that claimants would act in good faith

Theclaimants sought declarations that notices, by which they purported to terminatethe appointment of the defendant as Operator under four Joint Operating Agreementsand a Unitisation and Unit Operating Agreement (JOAs) between the claimants andthe defendant, were valid and took effect in accordance with their terms.