Marion White v Francis [1972] 1 WLR 1423
Citation:Marion White v Francis [1972] 1 WLR 1423
Rule of thumb:If there is a clause in your employment stating that you cannot compete with the business within a certain for a certain period after leaving the organisation, is this valid? Yes. An exclusivity agreement preventing a former employee from trading within a certain radius of his former employers for a certain period of time fairly drafted does not breach the restrictive trade agreement principle.
Judgment:
"It is obvious that in an establishment such as a ladies' hairdresser's establishment the assistants who actually deal with the customers, who dress their hair, wash their hair, and do whatever else they do for the customers, provide a very important part of the personal contact between those engaged in the business and the customers of the business. That constitutes an important element of the goodwill of the business; and that is an interest which the employer is entitled to have protected." Buckley LJ at 1429C-D
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