The High Court in London has ordered a former employee of recruitment firm Hays to disclose details of his Linkedin profile.

It was claimed that Mark Ions set up a rival agency and used LinkedIn to steal clients from his ex-employer.

According to Out-law.com, Ions worked for Hays Specialist Recruitment for six and a half years before leaving to run his own agency. Hays claims that while still an employee, Ions cut and pasted confidential information about his clients and contacts.

After Ions left, Hays looked at his email account and found evidence that he asked two Hays clients to join his network at LinkedIn.

Ions claimed he had been a member of LinkedIn for over a year, with the encouragement of Hays.

Ions had to hand over his LinkedIn business contacts and all emails sent to or received by his LinkedIn account from Hays' computer network.

Hays' additional request for a copy of Ions' entire database of clients was rejected as being 'simply a fishing expedition' and 'plainly too wide' the court ruled. X

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