The Weekly Law Reports
[2020] 3 WLR 810
Court of Appeal
Glencairn IP Holdings Ltd and another v Product Specialities Inc (trading as Final Touch) and another
[2020] EWCA Civ 609
2020 March 31; May 7
David Richards, Flaux, Arnold LJJ
Solicitor— Duty— Confidential information— Claimants’ claim compromised by way of settlement agreement containing confidentiality clause binding on parties but not legal representatives— Defendant’s solicitors subsequently acting for different defendants in later claim brought by same claimants— Claimants applying for order restraining solicitors from continuing to act— Whether application falling within special jurisdiction arising where solicitor acting against former client— Whether burden on solicitors to show no risk of misuse of confidential information and prejudice to claimants— Whether solicitors to be restrained from continuing to act