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EM Plastic and Electric Product Ltd. v. Hobza

Irving Marks
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Irving Marks represented EM Plastic & Electric Product Ltd (EM Plastic) in a claim against departing senior employees who left the company to set up a competing business. At trial, the departing employees were held liable for damages on the basis that they had breached fiduciary duties owed to their employer by establishing a competing business while still employed by EM Plastic and by soliciting EM Plastic's customers for their new business.

  • EM Plastic and Electric Product Ltd. v. Hobza (Ont. C.A.), [1993] O.J. No. 3080

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