Unenforceable Post-Termination Restrictive Covenants

In CFF Holdings Limited and another v Mundey and others the High Court has held that a multi-national company which had non-poaching and non-compete covenants in its employment contracts could not enforce these because they were unreasonable.The non-poaching covenant was deemed to be too wide and it was impossible to identify which of the company’s employees in the UK and overseas were meant to be covered by it. The non-competition covenant was not considered to be needed to protect the company’s interests since less intrusive restraints would provide adequate protection.