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The case therefore depends on a nuanced analysis of the potential use of confidential information,» Justice Elliott Myers said in McMyn v.

But there is no doubt that it brings with it risks as well including: productivity loss, the disclosure of confidential information, risks to the protection of client relationships, protecting the reputation of the business, recruitment risks, and bullying and harassment issues.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has asked several law firms to clarify whether they are connected to the Panamian law firm at the centre of a huge leak of confidential financial data.

This is not only to ensure against subsequent employee litigation, but also the safeguarding of confidential information to which he had access.

Every day attorneys will «hit send» as they email back and forth a myriad of confidential documents to their clients and colleagues.

David is generally instructed in high profile and heavyweight cases in the High Court, frequently involving conspiracy and economic torts, unlawful competition, team moves, the protection of confidential information, post-termination restraints, wrongful termination / expulsion, carried interest and bonus disputes (where he has acted in most of the landmark decisions such as Horkulak v Cantor Fitzgerald, Keen v Commerzbank and Anar v Dresdner Kleinwort), as well as claims arising in a regulatory context which raise important reputational issues, and whistleblowing and discrimination claims in the Employment Tribunal.

Tata v Sengar [2016] EWHC 456 — acting for multinational IT consultancy business obtaining injunctive relief for the delivery up and non-use of its confidential information (High Court), and resisting discrimination claim in the Employment Tribunal

Secondly, and of even greater importance, the Tribunal considered whether the Commission's procedures, and its management of confidential information, require modification in light of recent decisions of the Supreme Court on closed procedures and the approach taken in EU law (the principle of «access to the file»).

Representing employers and employees in injunction proceedings pertaining to restrictive covenants and the protection of confidential information;

Trisha has also served as counsel to a special legislative committee inquiring into the release of confidential information by a member of government, and as Commission Counsel to the Commission of Inquiry concerning the Kingston Prison for Women.

Sales literature, software and promotional film about the product may be protected using copyright; its shape or pattern may be registered using a design; its invention may be patented; its name may be registered as a trade mark; and confidential information about it may be protected by action for breach of confidential information.

If a file copy is kept, all guidelines governing the handling of confidential client information remain applicable even if the person keeping the file is no longer representing the client.

[1] This appeal is from the judgment of Justice Edward P. Belobaba dismissing the appellant's application for an order that the respondents disclose the identities of confidential sources for a story written by the respondent Sinclair Stewart and published by the respondent the Globe and Mail Inc..

Thus, it's important to encrypt online transfers of confidential data.

Metadata removal, also called «scrubbing» or «sanitizing» documents helps prevent involuntary disclosure of confidential client information in electronic files.

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This duty aims to avoid two types of risks of harm to clients: the risk of misuse of confidential information and the risk of impairment of the lawyer's representation of the client.

In addition, the client waived any prohibition on any use of confidential information he may have provided to MacDonald.

The present members also voted in favour of demanding the Syndic du Barreau du Québec investigate the leaking of the confidential documents.

Participated as lead counsel in the successful resolution of a breach of contract action against a former employee for misappropriation of confidential information

Belhadj v. Security Service [2015] UKIPTrib 13 132 - H (IPT): Junior Counsel for the Claimant in a landmark case concerning the interpretation and application of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and the protection under Article 8, ECHR of confidential information, in particular, legally privileged information.

That said, the panel does lay out one step a lawyer should take upon discovery of confidential information in metadata.

Clause 70 creates a new criminal offence of misuse of confidential personal information held by the commission as a result of the exercise of its functions.

Not surprisingly it's the Merchant Law Group LLP that is heading this claim «for improper handling of confidential information and privacy issues.»

He has extensive experience in heavy - weight litigation between hedge funds in claims of the alleged misuse of confidential information in algorithmic trading software (typically working as part of a multi-disciplinary team with IP lawyers), for example:

This suggests that, to avoid relying on these indirect remedies, a company should discuss with the SFO before disclosure how the SFO might control the further dissemination of confidential or sensitive documents.

Advising and acting for an UHNW individual based abroad, a member of whose close personal staff had unexpectedly left his position and that country to return to the UK in possession of a company laptop containing a large amount of confidential and private personal and business information relating to the individual and his family.

Maitland Hudson LLP v Dempsey: Acted for the defendant, a departing LLP member from a solicitors firm in High Court, Chancery Division proceedings concerning a claim about the copying of confidential and legally privileged information that was disclosed to regulatory bodies, including the Solicitors Regulation Authority (which intervened in the proceedings).

Corbiere Limited v Mean Trading Systems: Acted for defendants in a claim brought against a start - up algorithmic trading hedge fund alleging misuse of confidential information in the software of the claimants.

There were injunctive proceedings in the High Court, Queen's Bench Division brought by the distributor based on claims of misuse of confidential information breaches of contract by its former employees (who had joined Vodafone).

If you're an attorney who has been paying only marginal attention to the online security of your confidential client communications, perhaps this month's ruling from the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility will persuade you to take a closer look.

«U.S. lawyers are free to outsource legal work, including to lawyers or nonlawyers outside the country, if they adhere to ethics rules requiring competence, supervision, protection of confidential information, reasonable fees and not assisting unauthorized practice of law.»

Confidentiality Agreements protect your company's information from intentional or accidental disclosure of confidential information.

Conspicuously absent in the case, in the view of Stinson J., was any evidence of precautions that would prevent any sharing — inadvertent or otherwise — of confidential information pertaining to the clients of any particular lawyer (e.g., instructions to support staff to take appropriate precautions regarding maintaining confidentiality, precautions dealing with faxes, mail or phone calls arriving through shared means, etc..)

The American decision, United States v. Warshak, is very much about the societal value of confidential e-mail communications.

The professional service sector is particularly at risk, due to the amount of confidential and financially sensitive date it transfers digitally.

Perhaps more seriously for family practitioners, the abandonment of the Hildebrand rules means there will be no defence for a practitioner who is handed copies of confidential documents by a wife.

Law firms have become are becoming prime targets for hackers because of the confidential, and often controversial, information they deal with daily.

Batner, a partner at McCarthy Tétrault LLP, made the comment following Superior Court Justice Todd Archibald's July 3 ruling awarding IMAX $ 6 million in damages for conversion and misuse of confidential information and trade secrets against Tsui as well as several companies associated with him, including Sunway Digital Inc..

Definitions of confidential information spell out the categories or types of information covered by the agreement.

a. to avoid the risk of improper use of confidential information; b. to avoid the risk of impaired representation; and / or c. to maintain the repute of the administration of justice.

Where there is a need to prevent misuse of confidential information, disqualification is generally the only appropriate remedy, subject to the use of screens to alleviate this risk as permitted by law society rules.

Chartered banks and entities that could be described as professional litigants may have a similarly broad - minded attitude where the matters are sufficiently unrelated that there is no danger of confidential information being abused.

The penalty for breach of confidential client information ranges from fines to suspension.

Except for filing with the court, all other aspects of handling of confidential information may be dealt with by way of agreement between the parties.

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To file materials under seal with the court requires the court's approval and may require that the parties address the balance between the principle of an open courts and the harm from the public disclosure of the confidential information.

Disqualification may be required: (1) to avoid the risk of improper use of confidential information; (2) to avoid the risk of impaired representation; and / or (3) to maintain the repute of the administration of justice.

An Alberta court has ordered a journalist to disclose the identity of a confidential source to a law firm that is suing him for defamation.

The misuse of confidential work information has the potential to cause damage to both employers and employees.