Private competition litigation is continuing to develop in the United Kingdom. The courts and the Competition Appeal Tribunal are seeing an increase in the number and complexity of follow-on damages…
Here is an item that I co-wrote with my colleague Stephane Eljarrat.
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When investigating cartel violations in Canada, the Competition Bureau’s tool of choice is the “search…
1. Introduction
The growing popularity of credit and other payment cards among consumers has been accompanied by an increase in the regulatory and legal scrutiny of the terms governing the…
Note: On October 31, 2013, Canada's Supreme Court issued important decisions regarding the scope of private claims for civil damages under the Competition Act. Below is a note prepared by Davies Ward…
Recently, there have been two striking cases of organisations behaving badly in a way that the outside world would think was well out of order.
In the first example – the Roma Medical Aids case – it…
On 8 October 2013, it was announced that the nuclear industry would not be included in the European Commission's draft Guidelines on environmental and energy aid for 2014-2020 as anticipated. Earlier…
In competition investigations, competition authorities receive substantial amounts of confidential business information, some of which will be commercially very sensitive. This information may be…
On 9 August 2013, the OFT issued draft commitments in the Hotel Online Booking investigation. The OFT has investigated the relevant markets for over 2 years and has provisionally found that certain…
On 26 September 2013, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") issued two important judgments (Case C-172/12 P, El du Pont de Nemours and Others v Commission and Case C-179/12 P, Dow…
The Canadian Competition Act prohibits various types of anti-competitive agreements between competitors. For example, it is a criminal offence for competitors to fix prices, allocate markets, and/or…
