Trade secrets, a hard drive loaded with sensitive files, and an alleged concocted story of a management coup. These are just some of the themes that played out in a courtroom drama in the UK involving a subsidiary of Dublin construction firm ABM. EMJ Plastics, owned by ABM and based in Scunthorpe, took two of its former employees and their company to court, alleging the pair took confidential information to set up the rival business. That business is Mekina Industries, which specialises in the design and manufacture of formwork panels used in the construction of bridges. This is also the…

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