Confidential Information

Information is valuable and it can be protected provided it is confidential and your own business can be shown to be treating it as confidential. Care should be taken over confidentiality and security issues and confidential documents should be headed as such.

Sometimes the duty of confidentiality is automatic, for example on the part of an employee or an officer of the company. Former employees have a more limited duty of confidentiality and so restrictive covenants which continue to apply after termination can be useful. Covenants which merely seek to stop competition are unenforceable. But those which are needed to protect your legitimate business interests - which can include your confidential information if there is a risk of misuse - can be enforced. These require careful drafting and our expert employment lawyers can help.

In other cases you need to agree that information will be kepy confidential before you let other have access to it. Common examples would be:

If your confidential information is misused - or you think it is likely to be - our experienced litigation team can help you obtain injunction to stop the misuse and / or compensation if you have lost money or reputation. Always take early action if you can.