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• What confidential information might your company want to protect?
  The information you need to protect will depend on the nature of your business and industry.
  Aug 01, 2016

• Obligation of confidence
  The key way to protect confidential information is to impose an obligation of confidence on the people who are receiving the information.
  Aug 01, 2016

• When is information confidential?
  There are two reasons why information might be confidential.
  Aug 01, 2016

• Identifying confidential information in your business
  If your business has any confidential information, take steps to identify this information as confidential.
  Aug 01, 2016

• Breaching the obligation of confidence
  If your employee or ex-employee takes your confidential information without consent and uses it to further a scheme that is contrary to your interests, they may be breaching their obligation of confidence.
  Aug 01, 2016

• How to determine whether an ex-employee has breached your confidence
  One way to find out whether ex-employees have taken confidential information is to obtain an Anton Piller order.
  Aug 01, 2016

• Step-by-Step: What to do if your employee or ex-employee breaches your confidence
  There are four key steps you should take if an employee or ex-employee has misused, or is threatening to misuse, your confidential information.
  Aug 01, 2016

• Obtaining compensation
  Your rights to obtain compensation for a breach of a confidentiality obligation depends on whether the obligation arises by contract or in equity.
  Aug 01, 2016

• Delivering up confidential information
  A court may order the employee or ex-employee to return, deliver or destroy documents containing the confidential information.
  Aug 01, 2016

• How to obtain an interlocutory injunction
  If one of your employees or ex-employees has misused or threatens to misuse confidential information, you can prevent further damage to your business by applying for an interlocutory injunction.
  Aug 01, 2016

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