Legal updates: April 2022

1 Apr 2022

In this month’s legal updates, Sophie Brookes and Debbie Shaw of Gateley plc examine non-compete restrictive covenants, company's articles of association and transparency of property ownership

Non-compete restrictive covenants: the enforceable and the unenforceable

The High Court has held in Law By Design Ltd v Ali [2022] EWHC 426 (QB) that a non-compete restrictive covenant in the service agreement of a senior employment solicitor was valid and enforceable whilst an equivalent covenant in the shareholders' agreement between the solicitor and her employer was unenforceable for being in restraint of trade.

The facts