   Wednesday, 2 February 2011  Losing litigant's hard drive to
die, but her lawyers' computer stays safe  There was no stay of
execution of the court's order ... Three weeks ago the IPKat
reported here on the litigation between Brandeaux Advisers and a
former employee, Ruth Chadwick, who had cunningly but unlawfully
helped herself to a large quantity of confidential information
which she anticipated that she might need in the event that a
pre-existing dispute between her and Brandeaux got to court. In
the earlier decision the court ruled against her, since it was
open to her to apply for disclosure (or 'discovery', as the Kat
sometimes fondly thinks of it) of such information as she might
actually need for that purpose.  In the second ruling, Brandeaux
v Chadwick [2011] EWHC 58 (QB), not yet available on BAILII but
efficiently noted by Lawtel, the court (Sir Raymond Jack,
sitting in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, England
and Wales, only a couple of weeks after he officially retired)
had to deci