Forty e-mails and letters from former and departing UBS employees were presented to the court by Vestra's lawyers as evidence of the level of dissatisfaction at the Swiss bank.

However, Mr Justice Openshaw said he found them “quite unconvincing” and that they were merely repeating the “party line”.

Will Roberts: The continual battle against integration flew in the face of the wishes of the people that matter most, ie firstly the clients and secondly the employees that know the clients' needs and wishes.

Charlie Parnell: In the end I was only too happy to tender my resignation, given that I appeared to have so little value to UBS.

Andrew Vacha: It was well reported that large redundancies were taking place and this led me to doubt as to whether my long-term future would be at UBS. I believe that I have now joined a firm that is well supported by its partners and has also been backed by a blue-chip institution in Goldman Sachs.

Debbie Hofford: My reasons for deciding to resign were firstly to escape from increased bureaucracy and I felt that, at a smaller organisation, I would have more scope to progress.

Mandy Smith: My reasons for wishing to leave UBS are the overwhelming bureaucratic controls that made every aspect of dealing with clients difficult. It felt as though the back-office constraints were working against front-office communication with clients.

Norma V. Redgrove: I would just like to state that I was unhappy at UBS as there were so many meetings and you were never able to just get on with your work.

Tony Allan: I left UBS for a number of reasons, the main one was the brand being tarnished by the media and a number of changes to the way our part of the business was going to be run.

Richard Wayne-Wynne: I had become increasingly disillusioned with the direction that UBS seemed to be taking the business as far back as January 2007.

John Jopp: The reasons for wanting to leave UBS primarily relate to a growing frustration at the increasingly over-bureaucratic nature of the business in relation to operational support. It is my belief that this was having a greater and greater impact on my ability to do my job properly.

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