The Federal Court has taken the "draconian" step of preventing a broker - and ex-police officer - from defending part of a restraint of trade case brought against him by his former employer, finding that he had deliberately destroyed documents that were relevant to the case and Google-searched the consequences of disobeying court orders.
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