Sentences with phrase «breach of confidence cases»

He has experience of misuse of private information claims, breach of confidence cases, breaches of Article 8 ECHR and urgent injunctive relief claims.

Recent case law demonstrates that the critical question for the court in breach of confidence cases is to analyse how Arts 8 and 10 apply to the facts of a particular case.

Not exact matches

This case involved Ms Kaur, a nurse, who argued that her employer's instigation, handling and outcome (a final written warning, upheld at internal appeal) of its disciplinary process following her altercation with a colleague, was unreasonable such that it amounted to a repudiatory breach of the implied term of mutual trust and confidence.

It is increasingly common (as happened in this case) for breach of the implied term of trust and confidence to be alleged by an employee in constructive dismissal cases (as such a term is fundamental and goes to the root of the contract).

The Court of Appeal in the present case found that it should be decided as a civil claim for damages for breach of confidence (para. 32).

The three cases involve five different alleged wrongs, raising possible causes of action for economic loss: inducing breach of contract (Mainstream), causing loss by unlawful means (Zeta - Jones) interference with contractual relations (OBG); breach of confidence (Zeta - Jones) and conversion (OBG).

She has extensive expertise in team move cases and claims of breach of confidence and breach of contract.

On the facts of G's case, it was unreasonable and a breach of the implied term of mutual trust and confidence for the trust to refuse to adjourn its internal disciplinary processes until the CPS had decided whether to charge G with criminal offences.

In the case of Agoreyo v London Borough of Lambeth [2017] EWHC 2019 (QB), the High Court held that the suspension of a teacher amounted to a breach of the implied term of mutual trust and confidence.

Justice Stinson referred to the Manitoba case of Grant v. Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, [2015] M.J. 116 (C.A.) and held that the three elements of the tort of breach of confidence are:

In extreme cases, the employee may engage in a breach of confidence, sabotage, or theft of trade secrets by the employee.

The case involved consideration of the bank's duties of confidence including the Tournier principles — where a bank can legally disclose information about its customers; it also considered the measure of damages for breach of duty where there is no loss

Having litigated a vast array of cases in matters including complex security cases, breach of contract, breach of partnership matters, construction defect, personal injury, and criminal matters, Mr. Elkus provides confidence in every instance.

Recommended in Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners as a leading junior in Employment law, Holly has a particular interest in High Court employment disputes and has acted in a number of cases concerning covenants in restraint of trade and breach of confidence, as well as bonus claims.

That is why, in Mahmud's case itself, damages were recoverable for financial loss flowing from damage to reputation caused by a breach of the implied term of trust and confidence.»

Thus, the action in breach of confidence, which was for centuries understood exclusively as a species of equitable wrongdoing, has been acknowledged, at least in cases that involve a breach of privacy as opposed to the divulgement of secret information, as a «tort» (see, eg, Douglas v Hello!

The House of Lords went in a different direction — one based, in part, on an aspect of UK Human Rights Act and, in part, on previous common law cases involving the tort of «breach of confidence.»

Haddon - Cave J has clarified in this judgment that such injunctions are available in cases of breach of contract and fiduciary duty (rather than just breach of confidence).

The judge expresses his view that springboard relief is available not only in cases involving breach of confidence but also those involving breach of contract and fiduciary duty.

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