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locked page 1 Apr 2007 Employee Competition – Recent Developments Paul Goulding QC, Blackstone Chambers. ELA Briefing

Two recent decisions of the Court of Appeal illustrate current judicial thinking on protecting the business against competition by employees. One case indicates a leni...
locked page 1 Sep 2003 Restrictive Covenants and the Employee Abroad Christopher Walter and Harris Bor, Covington & Burling ELA Briefing In many industry sectors employees are expected to take responsibility for promoting business interests that have international reach. Employees will often travel extensively and/or re-locate in order...
locked page 1 Aug 2003 Enforcing Restrictive Covenants Christopher Fisher is a partner in the employment group of Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw LLP ELA Briefing Decisions by the Court of Appeal on the enforceability of post-termination restrictive covenants are uncommon. The case of Arbuthnot Fund Managers Ltd v Rawlings [2003] EWCA Civ 518 is of int...
locked page 1 Jul 2003 Restrictive Covenants Melanie Russell is head of litigation professional support at Olswang ELA Briefing Faced with legal action to enforce a restrictive covenant against them, employees may consider an argument that the covenants were obtained from them under duress or undue influence, relying, for exam...
locked page 1 Jun 2007 New directive threatens restrictive covenants Bridget Hui and James Baker, Macfarlanes ELA Briefing Restrictive covenants are designed to prevent former employees from harming their former employer by competing with them. But could the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive,...
locked page 1 Dec 2006 Shepherds Investments Ltd v Walters Edward Brown, Essex Court Chambers ELA Briefing

In the recent decision in

Shepherds Investments Ltd v Walters, Etherton J, sitting in the Chancery Division, set out a broad new approach to the permissibility of employees taking “...
locked page 1 Jul 2007 Application for Committal Alexandra Carn, Edwin Coe ELA Briefing

There has been a spate of recent cases on applications for injunctions for breach of restrictive covenants. In this article, Alexandra Carn looks at the next stage – what to do when an injunction a...
locked page 1 Nov 2007 Upholding Restrictive Covenants Edward Brown, Essex Court Chambers ELA Briefing In Beckett Investment Management Group Ltd v Hall, the Court of Appeal further tilted the balance of power between an employer and its post-termination competing employees in favour of the empl...
locked page 1 Nov 2007 Injunctions and Speedy Trials: Practical Issues David Ludlow, Barlow Robbins LLP ELA Briefing David Ludlow identifies practical issues in prosecuting or defending claims for the enforcement of restrictions through to speedy trial
locked page 1 Dec 2007 In Review - 12/07 Stephen Levinson, Manches LLP ELA Briefing Stephen Levinson reviews Employee Competition - Covenants, Confidentiality and Garden Leave, edited by Paul Goulding QC and published by the Oxford University Press at £88.95.