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in Careers Advice, Changing Jobs, Employers, Legal Profession on 17/07/2019 by Jonathan Fagan

Restrictive Covenants – recent Supreme Court ruling

Reading Time: 2 minutesFor years we have very patiently advised clients contacting us to request solicitors with a following, ie the ability to bring their own work and files to a new firm, that there is the small matter of a Restrictive Covenant ever present in most contracts of employment. As anyone knows, you cannot simply walk out…

in Careers Advice, Changing Jobs, Employers, Job Applications on 16/12/2017 by Jonathan Fagan

Restrictive Covenants – do they put employees off?

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe have recently introduced a candidate to an employer where a restrictive covenant was used which must surely fall foul of rather a lot of employment regulations! The role is a fairly junior fee earner position and not senior management or director level. The restrictive covenant was actually called a “non-compete clause” and included the…