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United Kingdom restraint of tradefiduciary dutyspringboard injunction

Ltd v Dymoke

[2012] EWHC 80 (QB)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtHigh Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division
Year2012
StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

Senior employees who plan and implement a competing 'team move' while still employed breach their duties of good faith and fidelity (and, where applicable, fiduciary duties), and final springboard injunctions plus damages may be granted to neutralise the resulting unlawful head-start even where the post-termination covenants are themselves unenforceable.

Area of Law

General

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