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The protection of confidential information

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 16 2008

A number of decisions in the High Court and Court of Appeal over the last 18 months or so have highlighted the trend for the Courts to be more sympathetic to employers’ needs when facing threats of unlawful or prohibited competition from ex employees

The secret to enforcing confidential information restraints in Hong Kong double rise Development Ltd v Lung Kit Chuen

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Hong Kong
  • -
  • February 27 2013

Double Rise Development engaged in sourcing. The success of its business was based on keeping the supplier and the customer for the products apart

Employment agreement or independent contractor?

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Netherlands
  • -
  • February 5 2008

We continue to see numerous cases wherein the legal status of a contract is in dispute: employment agreement or independent contractor?

Evidence that SAYE plans work

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 29 2007

Despite accounting misgivings on the viability of Savings-Related Share Option Plans, news of one success story provides encouragement for their continuity

Confidentiality

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 10 2009

In Vestergaard Frandsen AS v Bestnet Europe Ltd the High Court considered the case of a consultant who, after doing research work for the claimant company, had then gone to do similar work for a rival

Employment contracts with corporate officers

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • February 12 2007

The Cour de Cassation (21 November 2006) has reiterated the fact that an employment contract signed by a corporate officer already in office is void

New ABI guidelines on executive remuneration

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 4 2010

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) issued revised remuneration guidelines for listed companies in December 2009