Doble v Chaffey Services Pty Ltd

• 1. Corporations
  2. › Officers and employees
  3. › Duties of employees
  4. › Improper use of position
  5. › Diversion of work from employer to competing company while still employed
  6. › Whether employee improperly used position by issuing quotes on behalf of own company
  7. › Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), ss 182, 183
• 1. Equity
  2. › Breach of confidence
  3. › Confidential information of employer
  4. › Turnover information derived from non-confidential invoices
  5. › Whether cumulative total of invoices possesses quality of confidence
  6. › Effect of sale of business on confidentiality obligation
  7. › Whether equitable right to restrain misuse of confidential information assignable on sale of business
• 1. Corporations
  2. › Civil penalty provisions
  3. › Compensation under s 1317H
  4. › Whether compensation may include profits made by contravener without proof of corresponding loss by corporation
  5. › Relationship between s 1317H(1) and s 1317H(2)
  6. › Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), s 1317H
• 1. Corporations
  2. › Officers and employees
  3. › Improper use of information
  4. › Whether improper use of information under s 183 requires breach of equitable duty of confidence
  5. › Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), s 183

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