OCS Group UK v Dadi [2017]

In OCS Group UK v Dadi the High Court sentenced an employee to six weeks’ imprisonment for contempt of court. The employee, Mr Dadi, violated an order banning him from disclosing confidential information belonging to his employer and informing others of the order imposed. The interim injunction required Mr Dadi to preserve hard copy and electronic evidence and warned that a failure to do so would render him liable to imprisonment, fine or seizure of assets.

The claimant, a cleaning contractor to the aviation industry, alleged the defendant had breached his contract of employment by transferring confidential information to his personal email account and by using the information relating to