Percy Rueber v Demeanour Tarigan
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | His Honour Judge Seymour QC |
| Judgment Date | 30 July 2014 |
| Neutral Citation | [2014] EWHC 3246 (QB) |
| Date | 30 July 2014 |
| Docket Number | Case No: IHQ/14/0476 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division |
[2014] EWHC 3246 (QB)
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand
London WC2A 2LL
His Honour Judge Seymour QC
Case No: IHQ/14/0476
Mr David Hirst (instructed by Baker & McKenzie) appeared on behalf of the Claimant
The defendant did not attend and was not represented
Approved Judgment
The claimant, Mr Percy Rueber, is the Chief Executive Officer of Glenville Financial Markets ING Bank NV. He is based, as I understand it, in England. Specifically the offices of ING Bank at which Mr Rueber normally works are at 60 London Wall in the City of London. The defendant, Miss Demeanour Tarigan, was previously employed by ING Bank NV as Head of Financial Markets in Singapore.
For a period between about July 2002 and June 2005 both Mr Rueber, the claimant, and Miss Tarigan, the defendant, worked at the same premises of ING in Singapore, but, as I understand it from the witness statement of Mr Rueber, which was made on 21 July of this year, he did not at that time, or indeed at any other time, have any direct contact with Miss Tarigan. Unhappily, Miss Tarigan seems to have become fixated with Mr Rueber and to have embarked upon a course of sending him emails, text messages and attempting to telephone him. She has also attended the offices of ING in London on two occasions seeking to see Mr Rueber. On one of those occasions she had to be escorted from the premises by police officers. She seems also to have attended at the offices of ING in Singapore, notwithstanding that she is no longer employed by ING. The evidence suggests that Miss Tarigan presently resides in Indonesia.
The nature of the communications that Miss Tarigan has engaged in with Mr Rueber is essentially religious, but with amorous overtones. In a less politically correct age she might have been described as a religious maniac. The communications are, to a large extent, unintelligible, but, insofar as one can discern any sort of coherent theme in the communications, it is that God, however specifically identified, is anxious to promote a relationship between Miss Tarigan and Mr Rueber. I am sure that Mr Rueber finds all of this extremely annoying.
The application before the court, however, is for an order restraining Miss Tarigan from communicating with Mr Rueber or from attending at the premises of ING either in London or in Singapore or...
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