All items: Restrictive covenants

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  Alliance Paper Group Plc v Prestwich [1996] IRLR 25 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Alliance Paper Group Plc v Prestwich [1996] IRLR 25 HC

    Date:

    1 January 1996

    In Alliance Paper Group Plc v Prestwich [1996] IRLR 25 HC, the High Court held that the employer was entitled to enforce a covenant restraining the employee from poaching staff who had been employed by the employer "in a senior capacity".

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  Anstalt and others v Hayek and others [2002] All ER (D) 377 (Nov) CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Keeping secrets and not competing

    Date:

    18 November 2005

    A round-up of developments in the implied duty of confidentiality and express contractual terms on confidential information and restraints on competition.

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  Arbuthnot Fund Managers Ltd v Rawlings [2003] All ER (D) 181 (Mar) CA (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Keeping secrets and not competing

    Date:

    18 November 2005

    A round-up of developments in the implied duty of confidentiality and express contractual terms on confidential information and restraints on competition.

  • Case round-up: compensation for unfair dismissal and restrictive covenants

    Date:

    1 April 2003

    This week's legal case round-up by Eversheds covering: compensation for unfair dismissal; and restrictive covenvants.

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  AT Poeton (Gloucester Plating) Ltd and another v Horton and another [2000] ICR 1208 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Confidential information: Features of electroplating cell were not protected against misuse by ex-employee

    Date:

    15 December 2000

    In AT Poeton (Gloucester Plating) Ltd and another v Horton, the Court of Appeal holds that features of an electroplating cell used by an employer, which was substantially the same as the cell used by one of the employer's former employees in his own business after he left its employment, did not come within class 3 of the Faccenda Chicken classification of trade secrets.

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  Barry Allsuch & Co v Harris 4 May 2001 HC (3 reports relating to this case)

  • Case round-up: Compensatory awards, restrictive covenants, failure to consult, sex and race discrimination, part-time working

    Date:

    1 March 2002

    This month's case round-up includes: Oderinde v Datapact ltd, Barry Allsuch & Co v Harris, Elkouil v Coney Island Ltd, Coker and Osamor v Lord Chancellor and another, and Chief Constable for Avon & Somerset Constabulary v Chew.

  • Case roundup: Restrictive covenants and consultation on redundancies

    Date:

    5 February 2002

    This week's case roundup, covering whether a two-year restrictive covenant was excessive and the award for a failure to consult on redundancies.

  • Covenants: Two-year non-competition clause was unreasonable

    Date:

    28 January 2002

    A non-competition covenant prohibiting a former employee from working as an estate agent within a specified area for two years after leaving his employer was unreasonable and unenforceable, holds the High Court in Barry Allsuch & Co (a firm) v Harris.

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  Bartholomews Agri Food Ltd v Thornton [2016] IRLR 432 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 June 2016

    Beth Staniland is a trainee solicitor, and Emma Cousins, Ciara Jenkins, Iain Naylor and Lucy Sorell are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

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  Beckett Investment Management Group Ltd and others v Hall and others [2007] IRLR 793 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case of the week: Post-termination restraint clauses

    Date:

    10 July 2007

    This week's case of the week, provided by Allen & Overy, covers post-termination restraint clauses.

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  Briggs v Oates [1990] IRLR 472 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Wrongful dismissal prevents reliance on "restraint of trade" clause

    Date:

    6 June 1990

    Where an employee is wrongfully dismissed, any outstanding contractual obligations of the injured employee are extinguished upon the ending of the employment contract, holds the High Court in Briggs v Oates.

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  Brooks v Olyslager Oms (UK) Ltd [1998] IRLR 590 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Ex-employee did not breach implied duty of confidentiality

    Date:

    15 September 1998

    An ex-employee who made negative remarks about the financial situation and management of the company from which he had resigned as managing director did not breach the limited implied duty of confidentiality which binds a former employee, holds the Court of Appeal in Brooks v Olyslager OMS (UK) Ltd.

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  Bull v Pitney Bowes Ltd [1966] 2 All ER 384 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Bull v Pitney Bowes Ltd

    Date:

    31 December 1966

    In Bull v Pitney Bowes Ltd [1966] 2 All ER 384 HC, the High Court held that clauses in restraint of trade are void unless the employer can show that they are no more than is required to protect its interests, but even then, if the employee can show that the clause is contrary to the public interest, it remains void and unenforceable.