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The Irish Independent has reported that five former
managers of a waste company who went into competition with
their ex-employer have promised not to use confidential information
allegedly taken by one of them before he left, the High Court
heard.
The undertakings were given by senior managers of Mr Binman,
Grange, Co Limerick, on information allegedly wrongly downloaded
by one of them before he left the company. A similar undertaking
was also given by their new employer - One51 of Thomas
Street, Dublin.
The undertakings mean that an injunction application by Mr
Binman to prevent the information being used, did not proceed.
A separate action relating to allegations that the five conspired
with One51 to take over Mr Binman will proceed later.
Mr Binman - the largest domestic waste company in the mid-west
- claims the five managers immediately began business in competition
with it after they all left the company on the same day last
January. It claims they are conspiring with One51 to takeover
Mr Binman's business.
Mr Binman also claims that the five are now employed at a
company operating from premises on the Ballysimon Road in
Limerick - controlled or supervised by One51 - which has a
range of business interests and had unsuccessfully sought
to buy Mr Binman last year.
It is alleged that the information downloaded included personal
data protected by the Data Protection Acts and involving personal
banking details of 50,000 domestic customers. In earlier applications,
the court heard that One51 had - in March 2006 - sought to
buy all or a substantial part of Mr Binman's business, but
was told that the company was not interested in selling. The
five managers had left the company last January in circumstances
about which Mr Binman had no intimation, it is claimed.
Source - The Irish Independent
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