Employment Covenants Considered
Beckett Investment Management Group Ltd and others v Hall and others [2007] EWCA Civ 613
CA
Weekly Law Notes Summary
28 June 2007
In construing a covenant in restraint of trade between a holding company and its employees who provided services through subsidiary companies within a corporate group, the Court of Appeal rejected a “purist” approach to corporate personality in favour of one which had regard to the realities of big business.