Employer ceased trading, I'm redundant. Is contract void? threat of Solicitation

[Ollie123]

Hi all,
I resigned on as Director & became an employee one month before the company ceased trading, where we were all mad redundant without notice. I have since set up a similar company with 2 colleagues and have approached all my old contacts with an Eshot and by phone to get work.

The old MD says that he is going to sue me for solicitation and de-valuing his database.

One other fact - I took on a project that was on the books and offered my old company some money for their creditors, which was accepted by the MD and the IP.

Do I have anything to worry about?

Cheers Ollie

[Eloise01]

Re: Employer ceased trading, I'm redundant. Is contract void? threat of Solicitatio

Yes. Potentially you have a great deal to worry about. You need a lawyer and you need one NOW. On this amount of information I cannot advise you - and a free advice website of any sort is not the place to be asking for advice on this or posting any details. But you could be in a very much larger amount of trouble, including theft - and theft on an industrial basis is very serious. And that would be even before considering the dubious nature of the actions of a director who becomes an employee weeks before the company goes belly up and then sets up the same kind of business with the same clients, some of the same staff, and within weeks. You really should have taken proper legal advice before doing anything, but you will have to take it now.