competitionlaw

01

Mar

2021

Encouraging new employees to bring clients with them can be risky

Roy Colaba's picture

Written by Roy Colaba

Encouraging employees recruited from competitors to bring their clients with them may not be inherently wrong, but it is often legally hazardous. A Court of Appeal ruling in the context of the travel agency business served to highlight the pitfalls...

18

Sep

2020

Competitor using your trade secrets? You don't have to take it lying down

Dean Parnell's picture

Written by Dean Parnell

If you believe that a competitor has come by your trade secrets and is using them to unfairly steal a march, you don't have to just sit back and take it. In a case on point, the High Court came to the aid of an American company which accused a...

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