Employee Competition: Covenants, Confidentiality, and Garden Leave is the first port of call for any employee competition case, whether in court, in arbitration, or at a tribunal. It is an authoritative and well-established text, cited in court judgments including Tullett v BGC (CA), QBE v Dymoke, Reuse Collections Ltd v Sendall, and Tradition v Gamberoni. The book is written by a team of leading practitioners from Blackstone Chambers and CMS, and experts from Alvarez & Marsal and StoneTurn, led by Paul Goulding KC, Thomas Croxford KC, Diya Sen Gupta KC, and Craig Rajgopaul KC.
Focused on UK law, the book offers considered and in-depth analysis of the full range of issues encountered in contentious and non-contentious work concerning competition by employees, directors, partners, LLP members, and others. Topics covered include the duties owed by an employee, protection of confidential information from misuse by an employee, third party liability, garden leave, and more. The book also advises practical action regarding pre-action steps, injunctions, as well as detailed consideration of interim and final remedies, as well as practice and procedure. The chapters are supplemented with checklists which can be used both as drafting aids and as tools to assess an existing document.
The new edition of Employee Competition includes a new chapter regarding team moves, whereby a number of employees leave their employer together to join a putative new employer. Another new chapter examines the increasing role of arbitration in employee competition disputes. The book also includes a preface by Lady Simler, who states that one of the 'abiding strengths of this book is that it combines rigorous legal analysis with practical good sense'.
