INJUNCTION – application for continuation of interim orders made on 13 September 2024 restraining respondents from soliciting applicants’ clients and staff, misusing the applicants’ confidential information, and general involvement in any business competitive with the applicants’ business – whether the applicant can establish it has a prima facie case and the balance of convenience favours the continuation of interim orders
Recent cases involving breach of confidence
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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
