Expert Employee Competition and Confidentiality Disputes Lawyers
Blake Morgan’s expert employee competition and confidentiality disputes lawyers combine the specialist knowledge of our Employment team, Dispute Resolution team and Intellectual Property team to bring you a seamless service in protecting your organisation’s knowledge and people assets.
Our specialist team understands how important your trade know-how, customers, suppliers and employees are and how to protect them as far as possible.
Main Areas Of Practice
The Blake Morgan employee competition and confidentiality disputes lawyers have expertise advising on breaches of restrictive covenants and confidentiality including:
Recruitment
Our team of specialists advises on all aspects of recruitment and effective contracts and service agreements.
Confidentiality
Our expert lawyers ensure that your business is protected when key employees resign or are dismissed. We also specialise in enforcing post-termination restrictive covenants and obtaining injunctions.
Data protection
Your employees often have access to sensitive and confidential data. Our expert lawyers help you to protect your confidential information and databases including data protection and advise on social media issues.
Intellectual property
We are experienced in providing expert intellectual property advice to help protect your ideas, services and products.
Fiduciary duties
Office holders have a duty to act and use their powers in good faith, in the best interests of the company. We advise on the fiduciary duties of office holders.
Existing employees
We advise on the enforceability of existing contractual provisions and review contractual arrangements when employees are promoted, move jobs or the organisation undergoes change, to ensure the contracts remain fit for purpose.
Departing employees
If it becomes clear that a former employee poses a competitive threat or is acting in breach of his/her obligations, perhaps enticing away customers/staff to a competing business or taking valuable customer information, our expert employee competition and confidentiality disputes lawyers can act swiftly to enforce your organisation's rights to the fullest extent necessary.
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Our Clients
Our team of expert employee competition and confidentiality disputes lawyers act for a diverse range of clients across all sectors that include corporations, private limited companies, owner managed businesses, charities and the public sector. We also act for senior employees who have left a business and are facing a claim for breach of restrictive covenants.
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Restrictive covenants will often be incorporated into a shareholders' agreement to prevent the relevant party from acting in a way that might cause damage to the business. Companies are justifiably...
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In employment restrictive covenant cases, the claimant, the former employer, will often seek to bring a claim against the former employee's new employer for inducing a breach of contract. In...
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In court proceedings injunctive relief may be granted to the claimant after successfully asserting a without notice application in circumstances where, for example, there is a case of extreme urgency...
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In this particular employment court case, the court had to rule on an interim injunction against a former employee for a possible breach of restrictive covenant. The question as to...
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A springboard injunction is an order granted by the Court which prevents, for example, a former employee from gaining a head start by using his/her former employer's confidential information or...
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The Court of Appeal decision in Egon Zehnder Ltd v Tillman [2018] placed doubt on whether it was possible for parts of a single covenant to be deleted without changing...
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