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restraint of tradefiduciary dutyspringboard injunction
Ltd v Dymoke
[2012] EWHC 80 (QB)
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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