Does your company own your CEO’s emails?
A UK court has found that a company does not own its CEO’s emails if they are not held on its servers. A former CEO of a UK company had his company emails automatically forwarded to his personal email address. A dispute arose around the construction of a 50,000 dead weight tonnage vessel, relating to […]
Restraining ex-employees from poaching clients
Contracts to stop an ex-employee from poaching a company’s clients need to be carefully worded. A post-employment solicitation restraint is a clause in an employment contract that seeks to ensure employees leaving a company do not take the company’s existing clients with them. This generally means an employee is forbidden from advertising or soliciting custom […]