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Bad news, sorry...
Bad news, sorry...
You cannot satisfy both your employer and your new client, so you will be pissing somebody off no matter what you do.
Ultimately your employer cannot force you to work your notice, as slavery is illegal (unless voluntary, you permies reading this). But...
Your mileage may vary
Your mileage may vary
I've found that the frequency of this untrustworthy back-stabbing varies a lot from industry to industry, and company to company. In my experience, the finance industry (banks and insurance) had a high frequency, engineering companies a low...