High Court grants expedited trial in case involving alleged misuse of confidential information and fiduciary breach by employee

In Braunford LLP v Allain [2025] EWHC 1934 (Ch), the High Court considered a request for an expedited trial and other interim reliefs in a dispute with a defendant employee concerning the misuse of confidential information, infringements of intellectual property, and breaches of fiduciary duty. The defendant, an employee, was on garden leave for a year following his resignation from the first claimant LLP. The injunctions being sought by the claimant included an injunction restraining the defendant for three years from the date of his resignation.

Against this background, the court was satisfied that the claimants had shown good reason for expedition, and that expedition would neither interfere with the good administration of justice nor cause any material prejudice to the defendant, beyond the inevitable prejudice that any defendant of modest means suffers as a result of being sued by a far better resourced adversary. The court determined that there was sufficient urgency and substantiated risk of harm to the claimants to justify an expedited trial, dismissing the defendant’s objections regarding procedural fairness and resourcing disparities. Accordingly, the claimants had demonstrated a good case for an order for an expedited trial.

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