Balston v Headline Filters Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1987 |
| Year | 1987 |
| Court | Chancery Division |
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53 cases
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Cayman Stock Exchange v Nealon
...Guardian Newspapers Ltd. (No. 2), [1990] 1 A.C. 109; [1988] 3 All E.R. 545, distinguished. (3) Balston Ltd. v. Headline Filters Ltd., [1987] F.S.R. 330, not followed. (4) Bullivant (Roger) Ltd. v. Ellis, [1987] I.C.R. 464; [1987] I.R.L.R. 491, applied. (5) Coco v. A.N. Clark (Engrs.) Ltd., ......
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Universal Westech (S) Pte Ltd v Ng Thiam Kiat and Others
...as an employee by so doing. Several cases were cited, and I refer to three of them. In Balston Ltd & Anor v Headline Filters Ltd & Anor [1987] FSR 330 the defendant Head was a director and employee of the plaintiff. Head tendered his resignation as employee on 17 March with effect from 11 J......
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Force India Formula 1 Team Ltd v 1 Malaysia Racing Team SDN BHD and Others
...in Faccenda Chicken beginning "We must therefore express our respectful disagreement" (see e.g. the comments of Scott J in Balston Ltd v Headline Filters Ltd [1987] FSR 330 at 347). As the authors of Goulding (ed), Employee Competition (2 nd ed) point out at 3.72, it is important to disting......
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Caterpillar Logistics Services (UK) Ltd v Paula Huesca de Crean
...Court to extend the general equitable doctrine to prevent breaking confidence beyond all reasonable bounds." 63 Similarly in Balston Ltd v. Headline Filters Ltd [1987] FSR 330, Scott J said at 351: "Employers who want to impose fetters of this sort on their employees ought in my view to be ......
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2 firm's commentaries
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Beyond the Four Walls of the Employment Contract - Good Faith, Fidelity and Fiduciary Duties
...Ltd and another appeal [1997] 2 SLR(R) 439 6 Supra note 1 at 15 7 Balston Limited & another v Headline Filters Limited & another [1987] FSR 330 at 340 8 [2011] SGHC 241 at [209] 9 Supra note 4 10 In Mona Computer Systems (S) Ptd Ltd v Chandran Meenakumari [2011] 1 SLR 310 at [14], t......
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Poachers beware...
...cases where an unfair advantage or head start was gained through misuse of confidential information (Balston Limited v Headline Filters (1987) FSR330), or where an unfair advantage gained by inducing an employee director to breach his contractual and fiduciary duties (Midas IT Services Limi......
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Intellectual Property Law
...of Appeal disagreed with him on this issue, Goulding J”s view found favour in subsequent cases (eg, Balston Ltd v Headline Filters Ltd[1987] FSR 330 at 348; Lancashire Fires Ltd v SA Lyons & Company Ltd[1996] FSR 629 at 666—667). Flamelite (supra) can now be included in this list of cases. ......