Jason Elliott was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 2013 and is the Associate Head of School of Law at Ulster University. As a practising barrister, he has developed a largely civil practice representing individuals, companies and public bodies in litigation. This covers a wide range of areas including personal injuries, wills and employment law. In terms of employment law, he has represented both applicants and respondents in the Industrial Tribunal. At Ulster University, Jason lectures extensively on the civil areas of practise such as Equity and Trusts and delivers employment law lectures for both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
The claimant was the company that employed the defendant in February 2015. He was employed as a broker. The defendant resigned summarily on 11th November 2019 and the court found at that time he had engaged in negotiations with other financial services businesses about joining them instead. The claimant brought the claim relating to the employment contract arguing that the defendant had breached the requirement to give six months’ written notice and that they were treating the resignation as an intention to end the agreement in six months’ time. On foot of this, they then sought an order invoking a term of the employment contract that stopped the defendant from working for any other third party
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