TRADE SECRETS / RESTRAINT OF TRADE

Current information is provided at:
www.FraudBarrister.com.au

These are a sample of some of the significant fraud matters I have been involved with where former employees are alleged to have stolen trade secrets/confidential information and taken them to rival business competitors:

Metso Minerals (Australia) Pty Ltd & Anor v. Kalra & Ors – defending a claim by Metso in the Federal Court in Sydney against two former employees and a consultant alleging misuse of trade secrets/confidential information. I appeared in the Federal Court on several occasions and gave advice in relation to defence strategy and response after search orders were executed on the respondents’ homes and business premises.

J&B Sales v. Kilpatrick
–I was engaged by J&B Sales after they discovered that three former employees had set up business in competition (breaching restraint of trade terms in their contracts of employment), misappropriated company property and sought to terminate my client’s valuable exclusive distribution contract with a foreign supplier. I assisted J&B with the issuing of Supreme Court of Victoria proceedings against the rogue employees and their new company, which included obtaining an order freezing the defendants’ assets and executing search orders on their homes and business (including imaging all their computers). The case settled quickly after the injunctions were obtained.

Michaels Camera Stores v. Genius