Employee Competition: Getting restrictions right

Catherine Taylor and Dominic Holmes look at some important lessons to be learned from a recent decision on team moves CEF based its case of unlawful advantage on a claim for conspiracy to injure. The High Court determined that there was no evidence to support conspiracy to injure, which is a very serious tort that …
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Fiduciary Duties: Competing interests

A Court of Appeal ruling has added to confusion about whether it is acceptable for departing employees to prepare to enter into competition with their employer, argues Gary Freer In British Midland Tool Ltd v Midland International Tooling [2003], fiduciaries were said to be required to disclose any activity, actual or threatened, which damages the …
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