CEF Holdings Ltd & anor v Mundey & ors [2012] EWHC 1524 (QB)

Restrictive Covenants: Dos and don’ts to protect an employer’s interests

Jonathan Fenn and Clare Fletcher explore the importance of tailoring restrictive covenants to ensure employers maximise their chances of safeguarding confidential information and preventing competitive activities ‘The best covenants are tailor-made to the individual circumstances of both employer and employee.’ Employees gain an in-depth knowledge of their employer’s business, including key customers, suppliers, technology, trade …

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Emergency Remedies: The big freeze

Jo Hall details best practice and recent case law on freezing order applications These are applications that require quick thinking and deft handling, often under time pressure. An application for a without notice freezing order is a remedy of last resort to be most carefully applied. Practitioners should be wary of the potential consequences of …

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Employee Competition: Getting restrictions right

Catherine Taylor and Dominic Holmes look at some important lessons to be learned from a recent decision on team moves CEF based its case of unlawful advantage on a claim for conspiracy to injure. The High Court determined that there was no evidence to support conspiracy to injure, which is a very serious tort that …

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