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Employee claims constructive dismissal after resigning following his uploading of CV onto LinkedIn

6 January 2012 | Paul Gershlick

An employee of BG Group has claimed constructive dismissal after resigning following a row over his uploading of his CV onto LinkedIn, the business social networking website. The human resources professional...

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Database right confirmed in table of data that was infringed by the Police – Forensic Telecommunications Services Ltd v West Yorkshire Police & Another, High Court

25 November 2011 | Simon Weinberg

Forensic Telecommunications Services Ltd (FTS) operated a business that recovered digital evidence from mobile phones for criminal investigations, for which it needed to know a mobile phone’s permanent...

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Police did not need to disclose information on sexual offender stats at schools because it was only in the public interest and not substantial public interest – Smith v Information Commissioner’s Office, Information Tribunal

7 October 2011 | Paul Gershlick

Ms Smith made a request to Devon and Cornwall Constabulary to disclose the number of teaching staff in schools and colleges in Torbay, Teignbridge and South Hams who had been investigated, cautioned and...

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WikiLeaks discovers confidentiality is important and sues Guardian for alleged breach

5 September 2011 | Simon Weinberg | 1 comment

WikiLeaks is suing The Guardian for an alleged breach of confidentiality. The website that came to the fore when it published secrets discovered from the US government, is now calling a practice that blows...

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… And they all fall down!

19 July 2011 | Bob Fahy

Remember the nursery rhyme, Ring a ring o’ roses, a pocket full of posies, atishoo, atishoo and they all fall down…… Like a pack of cards, the fall out from the phone hacking scandal continues...

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Man fined for getting girlfriend to supply patient data so he could contact them to launch personal injury legal claims

24 June 2011 | Mark Weston

A man has been fined £2,000 for obtaining details about 29 hospital patients and the treatment they were receiving. His girlfriend worked at the hospital. He had been employed by Direct Assist, a personal...

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Restricting former employees from soliciting your workers and clients: what is the legal position?

14 June 2011 | Michael Delaney

I was recently asked to provide an answer to an employment question posed in Jonathan Moules’ ‘Business Questions’ column in The Financial Times newspaper, which appeared in the Saturday 11 June 2011...

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Net continues to close around mosquito product consultant’s use of information in breach of confidence – Vestergaard Frandsen v Bestnet Europe, Court of Appeal

6 May 2011 | Paul Gershlick

Vestergaard developed a mosquito net. Two employees left to set up their own company, Bestnet. Bestnet developed a rival product. Vestergaard engaged Dr Skovmand as a consultant, but he defected to join...

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Confidence in our sport – Zacharides v Information Commissioner, First-tier Tribunal (Information Rights)

15 April 2011 | Simon Weinberg

The First-tier Tribunal has ruled that information relating to the progress of athletics in the UK coming up to the London 2012 Olympics was confidential information and exempt from disclosure under the...

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Company gets injunctive protection from prickly director – Hedgehog Golf Co Limited v Frank Hauser, High Court

1 April 2011 | Simon Weinberg

Hedgehog applied to the High Court for a perpetual injunction preventing its former director, FH, from disclosing confidential information about Hedgehog and its business. The business involved the sale...

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Latest news and views tagged confidential information

Employee claims constructive dismissal after resigning following his uploading of CV onto LinkedIn

Database right confirmed in table of data that was infringed by the Police – Forensic Telecommunications Services Ltd v West Yorkshire Police & Another, High Court

Police did not need to disclose information on sexual offender stats at schools because it was only in the public interest and not substantial public interest – Smith v Information Commissioner’s Office, Information Tribunal

WikiLeaks discovers confidentiality is important and sues Guardian for alleged breach

… And they all fall down!

Man fined for getting girlfriend to supply patient data so he could contact them to launch personal injury legal claims

Restricting former employees from soliciting your workers and clients: what is the legal position?

Net continues to close around mosquito product consultant’s use of information in breach of confidence – Vestergaard Frandsen v Bestnet Europe, Court of Appeal

Confidence in our sport – Zacharides v Information Commissioner, First-tier Tribunal (Information Rights)

Company gets injunctive protection from prickly director – Hedgehog Golf Co Limited v Frank Hauser, High Court

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