Paul Mackenzie, former CEO of debt collection agency (DCA) Mackenzie Hall, has been jailed after breaching a legal order not to compete with his former business. On 8 January, Mackenzie was sentenced to 10 months in prison by Lord Doherty, following a petition and complaint by Mackenzie Hall and its owner, PRA Group. Following PRA’s purchase of Kilmarnock firm Mackenzie Hall for £33.5m in January 2012, Mackenzie remained as an employee, but left the company in July 2012. As part of the sale agreement, Mackenzie had agreed not to compete with his old business. In July 2012 however, two former employees of Mackenzie Hall launched Mercantile Recovery Solutions, a DCA also based in Kilmarnock, which Mackenzie became involved with. Mackenzie Hall and PRA obtained an interdict – the Scottish equivalent of an Injunction in the English courts – ordering Mackenzie to stop working for the rival firm. Mackenzie repeatedly and by his own admission breached the interdict, leading Lord Doherty to state upon sentencing him:.....Read more here