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Old 07-23-2010, 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Yuliya Mironova View Post
My instinctive reactions to it would be:-

(i) It's an unreasonable term;

(ii) It's not legal ("in restraint of trade") and would never be upheld by a European court, anyway, and has been put in there as a deterrent (and will work well as one because nobody will test it in court, probably).

Yup.

That is the issue as well. As far as I know it is NOT legal here either to have such a clause as we are independent but who will try to dispute it? The companies have the upper hand here and if you don't like it? Deal with it or find another company is what they will tell you.

Deb
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