Can anyone recommend any employment law specialists?

[graemep]

My partner is currently in part time employment in beauty industry, and thinking about setting up a partnership with one of the other girls she works with (think hair salon, NOT pole dancers).

Her employment contract has a number of items refering to not being able to open up within a square mile of the existing employer, not being able to advertise in local press for 6 months etc - we would like someone in the know to give an opinion on what will hold water and what is as leakey as a 90 year old's prostate - is there anybody you guys can recommend that would review and write us a statement around the legality incase push comes to shove and she goes for it?

Thanks fellow PHers!

[AdvocatusDiaboli]

Call the Law Society. They will provide you with the necessary info. You appear to be looking for information on restrictive covenants.

[Jasper Gilder]

email me off line and I'll give you some contacts from not very cheap to less expensive

[timja]

Many restrictive covenants are not worth the paper they are written on and will not be upheld, however if her current employer wanted to, they could take her to court for court to decide by getting an injunction to stop her setting up a new company.

Could take months for it to get to court, before it would be likely that they would say the the RC was unfair as it prevents her from working in an industry she knows, and they would say the RC is invalid and find in her favour. But by now she would have been delayed in her new job.

Advise to get proper advice, but this is how i understand they work.

Majority of RC's are not upheld, but some are.