Case No. KB-2025-003035 - [2025] EWHC 2654 (KB)

Mrs Hampton was issued with new restrictive covenants when she became the Lettings Manager on 4 March 2024. These freshly issued covenants were identical to those issued to Mr Marchant and I will not read them out again. There is no signed copy of the covenants. Ms Hasking says that the claimant has no record of Mrs Hampton objecting to the covenants at any time. In her resignation email dated 13 February 2025, Mrs Hampton said that she wanted to leave her employment with the claimant as her working pattern in the office was insufficiently flexible.

The nature of Mrs Hampton’s work and her daily tasks is not seriously in dispute. She is not said by the claimant to have had dealings with landlords during the period of her maternity leave; but the claimant does maintain that she had dealings with, among others, Mr Sanghera, Home Minders and Monica Holdings in previous years. She bore no management responsibility but otherwise had a similar sort of exposure to landlord and tenant information as Mr Marchant.