Dundas Lawyers recently acted for a corporate client to restrain a former employee (and a contractor) from creating and promoting a competitive training program based on confidential information and copyright material belonging to one of our client’s entities.
After an extremely rigorous fact find involving a review of thousands of emails and documents and the preparation of a detailed chronology, we were able to file an application seeking an interim injunction to restrain the respondents from breaching contractual and equitable obligation of confidence and from breaching copyright. The effect of this was to restrain these people from ‘poaching’ our client’s customers and eroding our clients customer base.
In this case the preparation of a detailed chronology was key as this enabled us to highlight not only the strengths in our client’s case but also the weaknesses so that alternative causes of action could be pursued and pleaded.
The chronology also formed the basis for the overall litigation strategy and the detailed assumptions that the legal cause of action was based on.
Further information
If you need to consider how to best protect your business’ confidential information in a hurry, please reach out to me for an obligation free and confidential discussion of your options:
Malcolm Burrows B.Bus.,MBA.,LL.B.,LL.M.,MQLS.
Legal Practice Director
T: +61 7 3221 0013 (preferred)
M: +61 419 726 535
E: mburrows@dundaslawyers.com.au
Disclaimer
This article contains general commentary only. You should not rely on the commentary as legal advice. Specific legal advice should be obtained to ascertain how the law applies to your particular circumstances.
