Can an employment reference be defamatory? According to Mary Munnelly, who worked at the eLearning compliance firm City Learning, the answer is yes. In a damages lawsuit against the company which has made its way to the Supreme Court, she claims while engaged there as a sales executive she travelled between the firm’s UK and Dublin offices, met with blue chip clients, and brought in lucrative business contracts from banks, insurance firms and even a government department. However, when she left in 2015 on foot of an alleged bullying and harassment incident involving the company’s managing director Dorothy Hassett, she…

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