“…Mr Grant QC placed particular reliance on the speech of Lord Diplock (with whom Lords Simon and Kilbrandon agreed) in A Schroeder Music Publishing Co Ltd [1974] 1 WLR 1308. That case concerned an agreement between music publishers and a then unknown 21 year old songwriter which included a restrictive covenant prohibiting him from…”
“…ots of oppression see their modern expression in subsequent recent formulations of the doctrine (see for example A Schroeder Music Publishing Co Ltd v Macaulay [1974] 1 WLR 1308 (“Schroeder”) (at 1314H per Lord Reid and at 1315F-H per Lord Diplock); Esso (at 323D per Lord Pearce); PSM (at [105] per Arden LJ and at [150] per Gross LJ).…”