Dominic Regan is bemused by the lengths dishonest employees will go to
The employment law reports have recently produced a series of judgments suggesting that senior male employees think they are undercover agents. It is intriguing that employees are at their most creative when considering how they might be disloyal to their employer and so clear off to make a shed-load of money for themselves elsewhere.
Memory block
Let us start with the world’s worst outbreak of amnesia, Tullett Prebon plc v BGC Brokers LP [2010] EWHC 484 (QB). This was yet another enormous spat between city slickers, with the claimant company establishing that the defendants had unlawfully sought to induce a whole team to decamp and join BGC. Inevitably, there would have been a frenzy of messages flying around between the conspirators. There is a profound difference between e-mails, which can often be resurrected despite deletion (but see below), and text messages which cannot be accessed save by reading them on the device concerned. Mr Verrier, a key defendant, managed to lose eight Blackberries. Lest there be any suggestion of duplicity on his
