PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – where applicant previously worked for respondent and had access to respondent’s confidential information / intellectual property – where applicant seeks redactions to discovered documents – where parties are competing trade rivals –
Recent cases about confidential information
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Aristocrat Technologies Australia PL v Light & Wonder, Inc. (No 2) [2025] FCA 64
Application for interlocutory injunction to restrain individual from using devices containing confidential information – application refused.
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Fortrend Securities Pty Ltd v Wollermann (No 2) [2025] FCA 96
CORPORATIONS – alleged breaches of equitable duty of confidence, fiduciary duties and statutory obligations by former employee – where clients moved from applicants to the respondents’ new employer – whether respondents breached the employment contract or used confidential information to solicit former clients – whether new employer liable as an accessory or for inducing breach…
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Pilatus Training Solutions Australia Pty Ltd v Secure & Innovate Group Pty Ltd [2024] FCA 1294
DISCOVERY – application for preliminary discovery – where documents sought to determine whether to commence proceedings for copyright infringement and breach of confidence – whether anticipated copyright claim would be defeated by s 183 of the Copyright Act (Cth) – whether confidential information adequately defined Related cases on preliminary discovery Original article available at: https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2024/2024fca1294For…
Original article available at: https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2024/2024fca0639
For more information, see the original judgement.
