A two-day court hearing to determine whether Colliers CRE must destroy allegedly confidential information passed to it by three former employees of a rival company has begun.
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Colliers CRE and its subsidiary Locum Consulting are involved in the claim as they are accused of receiving confidential information on HVS’s clients, employees and projects from the employees, who allegedly hoped to move to Colliers CRE along with other HVS employees.
SG&R claims that the “threesome” was “engaged in a course of wrongdoing involving the misappropriation of confidential information, the grooming of clients, and the soliciting of employees in order to cause maximum harm to the claimant while preparing to start a rival business under the aegis’s of Colliers and Locum Consulting.”
In court this morning, Selwyn Bloch QC for SG&R read from e-mails between the employees and Richard Tibbott of Locum Consulting referring to a £180,000 one-off payment to them for bringing “working tools and knowhow” to Colliers CRE.
Bloch told Mr Justice Cranston, “the recipient, Richard Tibbott, can have been in no doubt whatsoever that what he was involved in was a concerted and unlawful team move [to Colliers CRE]”.
Cranston J is also being asked to determine whether Bourdais and Smith should be prevented from taking up employment with Colliers CRE during their gardening leave from SG&R.
Colliers CRE is defending all the claims made against it.
The case continues.
