‘What’s a fiduciary duty got to do with it? Lawyers, successive parties, and confidentiality’

“Following a recent guest post on Singaporean developments in the law of confidence, this Kat is now turning to a similar scenario considered by the Court of Appeal (England and Wales). In Glencairn v Final Touch [2020] EWCA Civ 609, the Court upheld the decision of the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court to refuse to find the existence of a true fiduciary duty between a solicitor and an opposing party in circumstances where the firm acted for separate successive parties against that same opponent …” (more)

[Sophie Corke, The IPKat, 16 October]

First posted 2020-10-18 10:18:23

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