Restrictions OK
Jurisdiction Employment Relations Authority - Auckland
Reference No AA 106/01
Hearing date 2 Aug 2001
Determination date 09 August 2001
Member A Dumbleton
Representation F Wood ; S Williams
Location Auckland
Parties Claymark Industries Limited v Catt
Summary INTERIM INJUNCTION - Restraint of trade - Could not work for business in direct competition with applicant for 12 months after termination - Serious question to be tried - Whether in direct competition - Arguable case - Threshold not high - Balance of convenience favoured respondent - Would be without pay - Length of delay - Availability of other remedies - Plaintiff gave undertaking as to damages for lost wages - Overall justice of the case favoured applicant - Reasonable fear that commercially sensitive and confidential information would be disclosed - Ordered to cease current employment - Ordered not to disclose confidential information - Ordered to comply with terms of restraint clause - Timber mill manager
Result Orders accordingly ; Costs reserved
Cases Cited Grey Advertising (New Zealand) Ltd v Marinkovich [1999] 2 ERNZ 844;Klissers Farmhouse Bakeries Ltd v Harvest Bakeries Ltd [1985] 2 NZLR 129
Number of Pages 5
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