Relevant acts by Mr Bishop
87.Two categories of act by Mr Bishop were relied on in closing.
Viewtrail 88.The first consisted of accessing Viewtrail after he left Trailfinders’ employment. He admitted that he had done so on 63 occasions. Mr Bishop’s pleaded case was that of the 32 clients concerned, he had received permission from 23 of them to access their Viewtrail details.
The contact book 89.About six months before Mr Bishop left Trailfinders he started to assemble what came to be referred to as his ‘contact book’. This contained the names, contact details and other information about clients he had dealt with. Mr Bishop said that the majority of this information had been taken from Trailfinders’ Superfacts system.
- Introduction
- Directive 2016/943
- Subject matter and scope Article 1 Subject matter and scope
- Article 2 Definitions
- Lawful acquisition, use and disclosure of trade secrets
- Article 4 Unlawful acquisition, use and disclosure of trade secrets
- Article 5 Exceptions
- Measures, procedures and remedies Section 1 General provisions Article 6 General obligation
- Article 7 Proportionality and abuse of process
- Implied contractual obligations of an employee
- Equitable duty of confidence
- Vicarious liability of an employer
- Clarification of the issues in dispute
- The witnesses
- Whether the information relied on by Trailfinders was confidential
- The duties owed by Mr La Gette and Mr Bishop
- Relevant acts by Mr La Gette
- Relevant acts by Mr Bishop
- Overlap data
- Whether Mr La Gette was in breach of confidence
- Whether Mr Bishop was in breach of confidence
- Alleged breach of confidence by TCL
- Agency and employment
- Conclusion