20 Dec 2010
MIDLAND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT LTD AND ANOTHER v. LO MAN KUI
- Citation
- MIDLAND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT LTD AND ANOTHER v. LO MAN KUI
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA1599/2010
The summons for interlocutory injunction was dismissed because the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate a good prospect of success: clause 11.3 is an unreasonable and overbroad non-competition going beyond protection of trade connections (and is diminished by existing non-solicitation clauses 11.4 and 11.5); clause 11.6 is an indiscriminate anti-poaching restraint not sufficiently limited or pleaded to protect a legitimate interest in staff stability; blue-pencil/severance could not cure these defects as proposed; accordingly injunctive relief was refused and costs were ordered nisi for the defen…