Injunction

The Queen’s Bench Division held that interim relief would be granted in a case where the defendant advisers were alleged to have breached restrictive covenants contained in their consultancy agreements. Among other things, the claimants were entitled to undertakings which prevented disclosure of, and required delivery up of, the claimants’ confidential customer lists, and the issues at the speedy trial were to include the question of whether the defendants had breached the covenants, as well as the question of their enforceability. However, the defendants were not, at that stage, required to provide witness statements setting out their recent conduct, and the court declined to grant the defendants’ application to join a further 22 advisers as additional defendants to the claim.