Alan Haugh BL was a practicing barrister, specialising in employment and industrial relations law, until his appointment as Deputy Chairman of the Labour Court in September 2015. Alan was previously Head of Employment Law at IBEC, Legal Adviser to NERA, and a Senior Associate at A&L Goodbody. He advised the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation during the course of the drafting of the Workplace Relations Act 2015.
Introduction ⚓︎
The within judgment is the culmination of an eight-day trial in the High Court before Allen J in December 2019 further to an application by Ryanair Limited (as it then was) (‘the Company’) for an order of specific performance of Mr Peter Bellew’s (‘the Defendant’) contract of employment - specifically the post-employment restrictive covenants therein -and an injunction preventing him from commencing employment with a rival airline, easyJet, for a period of twelve months post the termination of his employment with the Company. The Defendant was employed as the Company’s Chief Operations Officer (‘COO’) until his resignation took effect on 31 December 2019.
It is submitted that the Court’s analysis of the restrictive covenant in question and the
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