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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Harlech Enterprises Pty Ltd v Beno Excavations Pty Ltd [2024] FCA 639
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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Energy Action (Australia) Pty Ltd v Ritson [2024] FCA 565
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – application for interlocutory injunction purportedly restraining disclosure of confidential information – where applicant is an energy broker and respondent is a former employee – whether balance of convenience favours injunction – where substantial delay in seeking injunction – where terms of injunction are excessive, will inevitably lead to future disputation, and…
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Canview Pty Ltd v Gilmore [2024] FCA 551
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – Application for interlocutory injunction – where the applicants contend that the respondent has misused confidential information and infringed copyright – where prima facie case established – whether balance of convenience favoured the grant of an injunction – where the form of interlocutory orders in contention – injunction granted
