Metropolis lawyer discovered responsible of contempt after destroying proof when advising Ocado co-founder

A Metropolis lawyer who destroyed proof when advising certainly one of Ocado’s co-founders has been discovered responsible of contempt of courtroom, the Excessive Court docket has dominated. 

Raymond McKeeve had a ‘vital and opposed impact on the administration of justice’ when he ordered an IT supervisor at a agency arrange by Jonathan Faiman to ‘burn’ messages throughout a company espionage probe, as he tried to cease materials falling into the fingers of on-line grocer Ocado. 

Faiman was in a authorized dispute with the retailer, which had accused him of utilizing confidential data to launch a rival. McKeeve beforehand apologised for his ‘critical error of judgment’. Ocado mentioned: ‘We felt compelled to deliver this solicitor’s conduct to the eye of the courtroom.’ A listening to in October will decide McKeeve’s sentence.