End user engagement, restrictive clause on contract...

[Andy Hallett]

I can understand why an agent would not want it be true, but it's likely s that if an extension was 3 month and the handcuff clause was 12 months then a court may consider this an unreasonable restriction amounting to restraint of trade.
I know this from having to go down the legal route with an agency due to this.

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I no longer work for an agency. I know from 20 years experience of enforcing this when I did......

PS Your assumption should be that most agencies would go after the client (they have money) not the contractor.

[iguy2008]

I'm not assuming anything. I'm telling you and the op what the solicitor I engaged to look into this said.

It's a petty that with all your experience that you cannot offer some useful advice to the op rather than provding curt and accurate statements.

I no longer work for an agency. I know from 20 years experience of enforcing this when I did......

PS Your assumption should be that most agencies would go after the client (they have money) not the contractor.

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[Andy Hallett]

Noted.

My advice to the OP would be to have his client hammer out a deal with the agency. I suspect they’d get a good deal right now.