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Article: Court Confirms Consultant's Breach Of Confidence.(Vestergaard Group v Bestnet Europe Limited )(Case overview)
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
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- September 10, 2009
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The Chancery Division of the High Court has ruled in favour of the Vestergaard Group of Companies after defendants - including two ex-employees and a consultant - went to work for a competing company to develop rival products.
Facts Claimant Vestergaard makes and sells insecticidal mosquito nets. Defendants Bestnet Europe Limited and others set up in competition with the claimant to develop a similar product.
Vestergaard claimed that in developing the competing product the defendants' misused information on a confidential database, and which contained technical trade secrets.
The court ruled that the consultant was in breach of his duty of ...