Miss Justice Finlay Geoghegan, in a judgment of 26 March 2014, refused an interlocutory application by the plaintiff seeking to (1) restrain the termination of his employment and (2) restrain the defendants from terminating an alleged partnership. 

A meeting took place between the plaintiff and the first named defendant on 11 December 2013 to discuss certain issues which had arisen. There was some dispute as to the exact facts of the meeting. The plaintiff alleged that he understood that he was to be put on paid leave for a month and that the issues raised in the meeting, including what was described by Miss Justice Finlay Geoghegan as the ‘Facebook issue’, would be looked at in one month. However