TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goulding,Paul
TI  - Employee competition: covenants, confidentiality, and garden leave 
SN  - 0199587698
AV  - KD3101 .E47 2011
U1  - 344.41012 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Covenants not to compete
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Confidential business information
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Leave of absence
KW  - Labor contract
KW  - Actions and defenses
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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