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Royal Courts of Justice Author Aurelien Guichard   Licence CC BY-SA 2,0   Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lord Justice Lewison, Lady Justice Asplin and Lord Justice Arnold)  Travel Counsellors Ltd v Trailfinders Ltd [2021] EWCA Civ 38 (19 Jan 2021) This was an appeal by Travel Counsellors Ltd ("TCL") against the judgment of His Honour Judge Hacon in  Trailfinders Ltd v Travel Counsellors Ltd and others   [2020] EWHC 591 (IPEC) (12 March 2020) that Andrew La Gette and David Bishop, the second and fifth defendants had both acted in breach of their contracts of employment and in breach of equitable obligations of confidence to Trailfinders Ltd and that TCL had acted in breach of an equitable obligation of confidence.  I discussed the case in  Trade Secrets - Trailfinders Ltd v Travel Counsellors Ltd. and Others   on 20 March 2021. It is not clear from the transcripts of either the appeal or the trial whether it was the trial judge or a Lord Justice w...

Author Ashte   Licence CC BY-SA 3.0  Source  Wikipedia "Trilfinders " Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Judge Hacon)   Trailfinders Ltd v Travel Counsellors Ltd  and other s [2020] EWHC 591 (IPEC) (12 March 2020) This is the first case that I have seen in which the Trade Secrets Directive ( Directive (EU) 2016/943 of 8 June 2016 on the protection of undisclosed know-how and business information (trade secrets) against their unlawful acquisition, use and disclosure (OJ 15.6.2016 L 157/1)  has been considered by an English judge. I have written quite a lot about that Directive and I have always taken the view that it creates new rights and obligations while leaving the law of confidence more or less intact (see Jane Lambert The Trade Secrets Directive 7 July 2020 NIPC Law). In   Trailfinders Ltd v Travel Counsellors Ltd and others  [2020] EWHC 591 His Honour Judge Hacon quoted in full the first 7 articles of t...