“… issue as to whether the employers have repudiated the contract so as to be precluded from relying on any restrictive covenants (General Billposting v Atkinson [1909] AC 118).…”
“…As the judge had well in mind, these covenants would not apply if the covenantee was in repudiatory breach of the agreement: General Billposting v Atkinson [1909] AC 118. The covenantee would be free to appoint another franchisee. This was the point about absence of reciprocity the judge was making at [305(k)] of the judgment.…”