Trade Secrets in UK Law

  • Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 December 1985
    ...... a substantial part, though always the smaller part, of the company's trade. There were in all ten refrigerated vehicles, each driven by a salesman ... Faccenda and "would not use confidential information and/or trade secrets gained by them and each of them whilst in [Faccenda's] employment to the ......
  • Lansing Linde Ltd v Kerr
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 October 1990
    ......Thus clause 16.2 provided that he would not disclose trade secrets or other information; clause 17, that for a period of twelve ......
  • Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd and Others (No. 2)
    • House of Lords
    • 13 October 1988
    ...... foreign government so as to protect that government's intelligence secrets and confidential political information. In the meantime Spycatcher had ...When trade secrets are betrayed by a confidant to a third party it is usually the ......
  • Bullivant (Roger) Ltd v Ellis
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 May 1986
    ......It also lists other trade contacts. It was in relation to that card index that the injunction now ...First, there are what this court compendiously described as trade secrets or their equivalent. They may not in any circumstances be used by the ......
  • Cape Intermediate Holdings Ltd v Mr Graham Dring (for and on behalf of The Asbestos Victims Support Group)
    • Supreme Court
    • 29 July 2019
    ...... of privacy interests more generally, and the protection of trade secrets and commercial confidentiality. In civil cases, a party may be ......
  • Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No 1)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 December 2000
    ...... readership income, and the damage to its relationship with the news trade. . . 42 As to the first, Ms Cartwright said that Hello! ... vast majority of cases, in particular those concerned with trade secrets, the duty of confidence will arise from a transaction or relationship ......
  • Herbert Morris, Ltd v Saxelby
    • House of Lords
    • 08 February 1916
  • Wickman Machine Tool Sales Ltd v L. Schuler A.G.
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 April 1972
    ...... which was not capable of remedy, as if Wickmans disclosed important trade secrets to a rival. I do not think that Schulers would have to give a ......
  • Lock International Plc v Beswick
    • Chancery Division
    • 1989
    ......C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. [ 1915 ] 2 Ch. 376 . British Motor Trade Association v. Salvadori [ 1949 ] Ch. 556 . Foley (B.) Ltd. v. ... or further order from (1) making use of or disclosing any trade secrets or confidential information of the plaintiff acquired by the first to ......
  • Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris
    • Chancery Division
    • 1977
    ...... Lord Denning M.R. , Megaw and Browne L.JJ. . . Restraint of Trade - Master and servant - Confidential information - Large organisation with ... by an ex-employee or his new employer he could protect his trade secrets or his confidential information by taking a covenant from the employee ......
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