Passing off and Breach of Confidence - Cosmopolitan Recruitment v Ludley and Another
Author Basher Eyre Licence CC BY-SA 2.0 Source Wikimedia Commons Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Melissa Clarke) PSN Recruitments Ltd v Ludley and another [2023] EWHC 3153 (IPEC) (8 Dec 2023) This was a claim by PSN Recruitment Ltd (trading as Cosmopolitan Recruitment ("Cosmopolitan") against its former employee, Graeme Ludley ("Mr Ludley"). Mr Ludley had emailed to himself particulars of Cosmopolitan's clients. set up a Greenscape Specialist Recruitment Ltd ("Greenscape") as a competing business and told Cosmopolitan's clients that he was still working for the same employer but from a different location and under a different corporate name. Cosmopolitan sued Mr Ludley and the company for breach of confidence and passing off in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court ("IPEC") . Their defence to the breach of confidence claim was that the information was easily obtainable from trade publicatio...