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Ensuring that clients can freely choose who they work with was a crucial point in a court decision that refused to grant an employer's request for an interlocutory restraint order covering its departing employees.

The Victorian Supreme Court case, involving financial services business Perpetual Limited and a group of its Melbourne-based financial advisers, covered similar issues to those in another Perpetual restraint case, reported by HR Daily earlier this month.

In that ruling, the Queensland Supreme Court rejected Perpetual's application for an interim injunction restraining one of its former Brisbane-based advisers, who had left to join competitor Ord Minnett.

In the latest case in Victoria, Perpetual sought an interim injunction to restrain six of its senior financial advisers, who had also left to join Ord Minnett...