Can a former employee financial advisor solicited customers?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Shoung Fitness Enterprises Inc. v. Taylor, 2022 BCCRT 215 (CanLII):
17. In Direct Lending v. Blanchette, 2019 BCSC 1068, which is binding on me, the court refused to find a former employee financial advisor solicited customers, even though the advisor had phoned the employer’s customers and told them she left her employment and gave them her new services and contact information. The court held that the advisor only gave the information so the customers could decide what to do next, whether to continue to work with that advisor and so, it found she did not “solicit” them.
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