3.2. From his time at
McLaren, Mackereth also had in his personal possession two hard copy drawings. These were of damper systems: one of a mass damper and one of a so-called ‘J-damper'.
3.3. According to McLaren, if all of this information (confidential, non-confidential and personal) taken together is printed out on A4 pages it amounts to 762 pages.
4.
Passing of information to Renault
4.1. Shortly after joining Renault, Mackereth asked an IT assistant to transfer the files on the 11 floppy disk files, which he described as containing “personal information”, on to the Renault IT system. The WMSC understands that the files were uploaded onto the Renault IT system and within around ten minutes were transferred to Mackereth's personal directory where only he had access to them. It appears that the files were not viewed during the transfer by anyone other than Mackereth. Renault has submitted that this represented 207 pages, 108 of which contained McLaren information.
4.2. Mackereth admits that after joining Renault he e-mailed the file ‘peak2.tif' (containing a one page ‘screen grab') to his Renault e-mail account where he renamed it ‘21aspec.tif'. Mackereth also admits that soon after he joined Renault, he took the two hard copy drawings from his home to work.
4.3. Although volume is no indicator of value, to offer a sense of perspective, of the 762 pages of information taken by Mackereth, 111 pages contained McLaren information and were transferred to Renault's systems or premises (about 15%) and were therefore theoretically under Renault's control.
5.
Investigations
5.1. Based on Mackereth's own evidence to the WMSC, it appears that a former Renault employee moved to McLaren and informed McLaren that Mackereth had disseminated certain McLaren information within
Renault. Mackereth seems to have discovered this and then came forward to Renault's senior management (presumably in anticipation of some action from McLaren).
