School tech supplier gets injunction over alleged ‘commercial sabotage’

A company that provides devices, software and information technology (IT) services to schools has been granted a High Court injunction over alleged unlawful accessing of confidential data by former employees working for competitors. Judge David Nolan said he was satisfied to grant the injunction to Upskill Online Ltd, trading as Olive Media, as he was satisfied there was a prima facie case of “commercial sabotage” in the manner in which the defendants had interacted with and taken clients away from Upskill.Upskill, based in Beacon South Quarter, Sandyford, Dublin, is suing Ian Gaughran, Erik Jentetics. Fintan Costello, PNS Ltd, trading as PC Peripherals, Grafton Digital Ltd, and Eduvolve Ltd. The judge made the orders following a one side only application from counsel Jarlath Ryan, with Ar