What started as a generous exit became an 18-month digital harassment nightmare
When Samantha Jane Bradley's employment at Sir Elly Kadoorie & Sons Limited ended in December 2020, she walked away with a generous severance package. The company paid her HK$24.92 million in termination payments and offered an additional consultancy agreement worth HK$8 million annually for three years. By June 2021, the company terminated that consultancy arrangement.
What happened next became the subject of a landmark ruling from Hong Kong's highest court on January 9, 2026.
Between December 2020 and May 2022, Bradley sent more than 500 emails to her former employer, its officers, employees, and lawyers at Simmons & Simmons. The messages were repetitive and hostile, containing allegations of dishonesty, suppression of evidence, breaches of anti-money laundering obligations, conspiracy to injure, fraud, corporate manslaughter, breaches of law and professional conduct, modern slavery and other misconduct towards Bradley, intimidation, harassment, bullying, defamation, discrimination and victimisation, bad faith, exposure of Bradley to criminality, and coercion to enter into the separation and consultancy agreements. She characterised the agreements as "hush money" to deter reports to regulators and alleged breaches of the agreements. The court noted that the vast majority of these allegations were wholly untrue and without factual foundation.
Bradley had joined the company's legal...
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