Yesterday saw businessman Paul MacKenzie sentenced to 10 months
imprisonment after he repeatedly breached an interdict against
him.
An interdict, the Scottish equivalent to an injunction in
England, is a court order which prohibits a person from acting in a
specific way in breach of another's legal rights. If an
interdict is breached, possible punishments imposed by the court
include a fine or imprisonment.
Mr MacKenzie previously owned a debt recovery business,
MacKenzie Hall Holdings, but sold it to an American firm for a
reported £33.5m. As part of the sale agreement Mr McKenzie
agreed not to compete with his old business. After he broke the
terms of the agreement by working for a rival company, an interdict
was obtained from court ordering him to stop working for the rival.
However Mr MacKenzie frequently ignored the court order and even
divulged confidential information about his old business on one
occasion. He admitted the breaches of interdict in 2012.
