21 Aug 2008
PCCW - HKT TELEPHONE LTD AND ANOTHER v. DAVID MATTHEW MCDONALD AITKEN AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- PCCW - HKT TELEPHONE LTD AND ANOTHER v. DAVID MATTHEW MCDONALD AITKEN AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV194/2008
Majority: Bolkiah principles do not extend generally to employer-employee relationships; where the recipient of privileged information is a former employee not in a solicitor-client or analogous professional relationship, the governing law is Faccenda Chicken and related restraint-of-trade jurisprudence, so interlocutory relief must be limited to specifically particularised categories of confidential information (trade-secret equivalents) identified by the deputy judge rather than a broad ban on involvement in the subject matter.