OREANDA-NEWS. November 27, 2012. The Lithuanian Supreme Court ruled that disputes related to compensation for a period of non-competition are civil judicial disputes and may be dealt with by arbitration, reported the press-centre of SORAINEN.   

This ruling means that parties entering into civil contracts providing for a period of non-competition and/or payment of compensation for that period may agree to resolve disputes by arbitration, so that these disputes should not be considered as being related to competition relations regulated by public law.

By this decision the Lithuanian Supreme Court reversed earlier rulings by the court of first instance and the court of appeals that non-competition clauses were not within arbitration jurisdiction.

SORAINEN achieved this successful result when representing MetLife in court proceedings. The client was advised by senior associate Tomas Talutis.