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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Native Extracts Pty Ltd v Plant Extracts Pty Ltd (No 2) [2024] FCA 106
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – whether information about extraction machine was confidential information owned by company where second respondent was former director – where machine had been identified by directors as suitable for proposed business prior to incorporation of company – where second respondent was informed about machine by third party on unrestricted basis – where evidence…
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Smart EV Solutions Pty Ltd v Guy [2023] FCA 1580
EQUITY – injunctions – confidential information – director / employee leaving companies in a corporate group and starting a new business in the same industry – evidence that some information taken – injunction granted CORPORATIONS – director and employee duties – misuse of confidential information in competing business – breach of duties under Corporations Act…
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Chan v Commonwealth of Australia as represented by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission [2023] FCA 1458
ADMINSTRATIVE LAW – Employment Law – application for judicial review – interlocutory application for suspension of a decision to suspend APS employee from employment – serious question to be tried – balance of convenience – orders made
