1991 年有 "GSL Engineering Limited and Yau Hon-yin, Sammon & Ors." 的個案。其中:
The court cited other ''actionable wrongs":
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"If after your employment is terminated you steal your employer's trade connection... by taking away with you a list of his customers, or copies of his records."
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即是說一個人離職後,提取了舊雇主的客戶名單或紀錄副本來偷取舊雇主的生意聯繫,是法庭認為不正當的行為!即是違法!
參考: Hong Kong Business Law in a Nutshell (ISBN 1-57823-021-7), 225-226 頁
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