2025/06/17

A Сourt Has Prohibited a Former Employee From...

 

The deputy director of an IT company resigned and opened their own company. The IT company learned that this new company had entered into a service relationship with a long-standing client of the IT company, even though the former employee had a non-solicitation agreement with the IT company for one year. The IT company filed a motion with the court for a interlocutory injunction. When the court considered this matter, the main criterion was whether the new company had entered into a contract with the specified client. Since the former employee could not provide the court with a written contract, the court granted the IT company's motion.

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In two separate decisions in April 2025, the Hong Kong High Court first refused, but then allowed, an IT company’s application for an interlocutory injunction to enforce post-termination restrictive covenants against its former employee and his newly set-up rival company.