LITIGATION AS WE KNOW IT MIGHT SOON BE SOMETHING OF THE PAST, WITH MEDIATION BECOMING THE MAIN DISPUTE RESOLUTION MECHANISM.

LITIGATION AS WE KNOW IT MIGHT SOON BE SOMETHING OF THE PAST, WITH MEDIATION BECOMING THE MAIN DISPUTE RESOLUTION MECHANISM.

With the High Court rolls overflowing, cases being delayed and legal bills piling up, the Rules Board for Courts of Law has proposed mediation to become the main dispute resolution mechanism, in order to relieve the High Courts’ workload and to steer the public into the direction of a quicker and perhaps more affordable dispute resolution process

RESTRAINT OF TRADE (NON-COMPETE) CLAUSES

RESTRAINT OF TRADE (NON-COMPETE) CLAUSES

A restraint of trade is a provision in a contract of employment that provides that after termination of employment, the employee is restricted in the work he or she can perform, in that he or she will be restraint from performing similar work in competition with his or her former employer, for a prescribed period of time, and it might even include a specific geographical area.