A hair stylist, who gave up her job with Peter Mark, has lost her Dublin Circuit Civil Court application to work for another hairdresser within a one-mile radius of her previous employer without waiting six months. Mr Eoin McCullough, counsel for Peter Mark, told the court that Ms Orla O'Connell quit her job at the Stillorgan, Dublin, shop within the Peter Mark chain and shortly afterwards took up a position with the nearby New Image salon.
He claimed Ms O'Connell (28), of Hazel Avenue, Kilmacud, Co Dublin, was bound by a clause in her contract stipulating her agreement not to work for a competing company within a mile of her place of employment for a period of six months.
Judge Alison Lindsay, granting Peter Mark an interlocutory injunction restraining Ms O'Connell from breaching her contract, said she knew what she was doing when she moved to Peter Mark in 1992 and signed the agreement.