Private jet firm sues ex-employee accused of poaching clients

A private jet company is suing a former employee who it accuses of using confidential information to poach its VIP clients.

Edinburgh-based Jet Logic has taken legal action against Vickie Clark after discovering contact details for its wealthy clients had been downloaded from the firm’s database.

Miss Clark, 39, worked for the business, which charters luxury jet and helicopter flights, for nine years and rose to the position of client services manager.

However, she resigned in January last year and has since started working for a rival firm set up by her family.

Jet Logic have claimed that Miss Clark, of Dalkeith, Midlothian, breached her contract by accessing more than 465 files from its records while working her notice period including their entire client database.

The data involved concerns a number of “high net worth” individuals and has been described as being of “significant value” to Jet Logic.

The company said Miss Clark “was not entitled to arm herself with client information and confidential material” to use in her new role with The Private Jet Boutique.

They secured an order at Edinburgh Sheriff Court for the recovery of documents which were then seized from Miss Clark’s home in a “dawn raid”.

They are now seeking an interdict at the Court of Session preventing their former employee from using any of the information in her current job.

Miss Clark has denied the allegations and claimed the information in her possession was email addresses which are in the public domain.

Her legal team said a client list and other information recovered from her home “was obtained from public sources, apart from perhaps six or eight which the defender had remembered”.

Sheriff Kenneth Mcgowan has awarded undisclosed expenses to Jet Logic in relation to their action for the recovery of documents.

The case at the Court of Session is set to be heard later this year.

On its website, Jet Logic says it charters private jets for top businessmen, sports stars and “some of the world’s bestknown bands and solo artists”.

Keith Campbell, managing director of Jet Logic, said: “I can confirm we have taken this legal action to protect our position.”