An employer has won a court order for a contractor to return its confidential information, some three years after they parted ways on unfriendly terms. Blue Badge Insurance Australia retained the contractor between April 2013 and November 2014 to provide advice on regulatory and compliance issues, and the end of the assignment was not "amicable". Blue Badge then reminded the contractor about her confidentiality obligations, which included that she must return or destroy all documents, electronic storage media and other materials relating to or containing its confidential business information. Blue Badge took court action after its numerous attempts to recover the documents failed, and NSW Supreme Court Justice  Francois Kunc  delivered his judgment on the same day as the hearing in the contractor's absence, satisfied that she "deliberately refused to engage" with the Court, and likely still had Blue Badge's confidential information in her possession. ...