“…the submission that the court should avoid categorisation, Mr Grant QC relied upon a number of recent cases including Ideal Standard International SA v Herbert [2018] EWHC 3326 (Comm) at [28], a passage approved by Asplin LJ giving the principal judgment of the Court of Appeal in Guest Services Worldwide Ltd v Shelmerdine [2020] EWCA Civ 85;…”
“…In Ideal Standard v Herbert [2018] EWHC 3326 (Comm) the court was concerned with a non-competition clause in a shareholders’ agreement. In considering this, Sir Ross Cranston noted at [28] as follows:…”