I recently wrote an article on the Government’s research on potentially making restrictive covenants unenforceable. The case below however is an excellent example of why such covenants are important to a business and without them, then business generally would be

The below case is an interesting case. One of the first matters I worked on as a qualified solicitor was to argue (successfully) that a contract was unenforceable due to it being ‘void ab initio’. This is a latin term