Course description
Led by Mathew Purchase KC, this virtual classroom seminar will provide employment practitioners with a masterclass in drafting, enforcing, and litigating restrictive covenants.
Topics discussed will include identifying the legitimate interest which requires protection (trade secrets, clients, the workforce, others?), identifying the nature of the restriction (non-solicitation, non-dealing, non-competition, confidentiality), and reasonableness. Clear and effective drafting will also be explored in detail, along with enforcing and avoiding restrictive covenants (including making and responding to interim relief applications, pre-action steps and without notice applications, disclosure, costs, and more).
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Training Course Content
Introduction
Led by Mathew Purchase KC, this virtual classroom seminar will provide employment practitioners with a masterclass in drafting, enforcing, and litigating restrictive covenants.
What You Will Learn
This live and interactive session will cover the following:
- Identifying the legitimate interest which requires protection
- Trade secrets and confidential information
- Clients or customers
- The workforce
- Others?
- Identifying the nature of the restriction
- Non-solicitation
- Non-dealing
- Non-competition
- Confidentiality
- Reasonableness
- What exactly should be protected or prohibited by the covenant?
- Geographical and time restrictions
- Changes in circumstances
- Clear and effective drafting
- Precision
- Clarity
- Agreements as to reasonableness
- Severability
- Enforcing and avoiding restrictive covenants
- Making and responding to interim relief applications
- Pre-action steps and without notice applications
- The nature of the injunction; springboard injunctions
- Offering and accepting undertakings
- Disclosure
- Costs
Expenses
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