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Recruiter's lack of response to restraint letters was "highly regrettable"

A recruitment company has won confidentiality and solicitation restraints against a competitor and a former employee, after a court found it faced a "high risk" of "irreparable damage" if an injunction wasn't imposed.

Construction and mining specialist Marble Recruitment sought urgent restraints against a former senior recruitment consultant and his new employer, Fetch Recruitment, pending a determination on its claims that the recruiter breached his employment contract and improperly used its information.

Despite a delay in Marble applying for interlocutory relief after becoming aware of the consultant's potential breaches, Western Australian Supreme Court Justice Michael Lundberg found there were "serious questions to be tried" regarding several aspects of its claims...