Employee competition : covenants, confidentiality, and garden leave / edited by Paul Goulding.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Duties -- 3. Confidential Information and the Database Right -- 4. Garden Leave -- 5. Restrictive Covenants -- 6. Vendor-Purchaser Agreements, and Other Commercial Agreements -- 7. The International Dimension -- 8. Competition, Sport, Human Rights, and Intellectual Property Law -- 9. Pre-Action Steps -- 10. Injunctions and Other Interim Remedies -- 11. Damages and Other Remedies -- 12. Practice and Procedure -- --

1. Introduction -- Aim -- Structure of the book -- Restraint of trade -- -- 2. Duties -- Sources of duties -- Who owns duties? -- Good faith and fidelity -- Diverting business opportunities -- Companies Act 2006 -- Economic torts and the liabilities of third parties -- Team moves -- Checklist -- -- 3. Confidential Information and the Database Right -- The duty of confidence: an overview -- What is confidential information? -- Express confidentiality clauses -- Defences -- Remedies -- Database protection -- Checklist -- -- 4. Garden Leave -- Introduction -- The rule against specific performance of contracts of personal service -- The emergence of garden leave -- Garden leave clauses -- Imposition of garden leave by the employer -- Enforcement of garden leave by the court -- Checklist -- -- 5. Restrictive Covenants -- The general approach to restrictive covenants -- Incorporating and changing restrictive covenants -- Is it a restraint? -- Repudiation -- Construction -- Legitimate interests -- Reasonableness -- Severance -- Discretion -- Restrictive covenants and TUPE -- Checklist -- -- 6. Vendor-Purchaser Agreements, and Other Commercial Agreements -- Introduction -- Vendor-purchaser agreements -- Partnerships -- Other commercial agreements -- Checklist -- -- 7. The International Dimension -- Introduction -- The rules applicable to the relationship between employer and employee -- The international dimension and the recruiting employer -- Flow charts -- -- 8. Competition, Sport, Human Rights, and Intellectual Property Law -- Introduction -- Competition law -- Sports cases -- Human rights concepts -- Intellectual property -- -- 9. Pre-Action Steps -- Introduction -- The claimant employer -- The defendant employee -- The defendant employer -- -- 10. Injunctions and Other Interim Remedies -- Introduction -- Interim injunctions -- Other interim orders -- Final injunctions -- Contempt of court -- Checklist -- -- 11. Damages and Other Remedies -- Introduction -- Compensatory damages for the breach of contract -- Restitutionary or gain-based damages for breach of contract -- Contractual damages for breach of confidence -- Exemplary damages -- Liquidated damages -- An account of profits and equitable damages -- Delivery up and destruction orders -- Tracing -- Declarations -- Alternative remedies - making an election -- Remedies against a third party -- Interim payment -- Checklist -- -- 12. Practice and Procedure -- The Civil Procedure Rules -- Statements of case -- Applications for interim relief -- Disclosure -- Evidence -- Trial -- Judgements and orders -- Appeals -- Costs -- Mediations and settlement -- -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: Computer Forensic Investigations -- Appendix 2: Sample Employee Duties Clauses -- Appendix 3: Sample Confidential Information Clauses -- Appendix 4: Sample Garden Leave Clauses -- Appendix 5: Sample Particulars of Claim and Interim Injunction in Garden Leave Case -- Appendix 6: Drafting Restrictive Covenants: A Note -- Appendix 7: Sample Restrictive Covenants (Employment) -- Appendix 8: Sample Restrictive Covenants (Share and Business Sale and Partnership) -- Appendix 9: Sample Pre-Action Letters -- Appendix 10: Sample Witness Statement in Support of Application for Interim Injunction to Restrain Breach of Restrictive Covenant -- Appendix 11: Sample Prayer for Relief for Inclusion in Particulars of Claim -- Appendix 12: Summaries of Cases on Restrictive Covenants.

"Employee Competition: Covenants, Confidentiality, and Garden Leave is a comprehensive and practical text for solicitors, barristers and in-house lawyers practising in employment law, and human resource professionals. It provides detailed analysis of the full range of issues that are encountered in contentious and non-contentious work concerning all forms of competition by employees, directors, partners, LLP members and others. "--Publisher's website.

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