If the Deel-Rippling corporate spying saga currently playing out in the courts on both sides of the Atlantic can be likened to the plot of a serialised novel, then this Friday the High Court took us on a side quest in which the judge tried to hold Deel and Hayes, its solicitor firm, accountable for his “severe concerns” with their communications. Keith O’Brien, the Irish global payroll compliance manager who says he spied for US HR giant Deel while employed by rival US company Rippling, has taken his own case to the High Court, alleging “a campaign of surveillance, harassment…