Courts increasingly willing to uphold non-compete clauses

The Court of Session in Christie Owen & Davies plc v Walton has upheld a non-compete clause that prohibited a former employee from working in any capacity for a competitor for six months.

Background

The Court held that non-compete clauses that prohibited former employees from working in any capacity for a competitor could be enforceable. The Court specified that the business which the restriction sought to protect had to be a business in which the employee had been "materially in... (166 more words)

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