Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2012] All ER (D) 12 (Jun)
Neutral Citation: [2012] EWHC 1479 (Ch)
Court: Chancery Division
Judge:

Roger Wyand QC sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court
Representation Gavin Mansfield (instructed by Moore Blatch LLP) for the claimant.
  Giles Fernando (instructed by Pitmans LLP) for the first and second defendants and (instructed by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP) for the third defendant.
Judgment Dates: 30 May 2012

Catchwords

Employment - Duty of servant - Confidential information - First and second defendants being employed by claimant company - First and second defendants subsequently being employed by third defendant direct competitor company - Claimant contending first and second defendants breaching confidence - First defendant admitting taking and using information from claimant - Claimant being granted interim injunction restraining breaches of confidence and database right infringement - Claimant seeking continuation of injunction - Whether arguable case documents being confidential - Whether first defendant breaching contract - Whether arguable case confidential information being used.

The Case

Employment Duty of servant. The Chancery Division continued an injunction restraining the defendants' use of confidential information taken by the first defendant from the claimant company, his former employer.

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