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Oct 21, 2024

Lassana Diarra foils FIFA’s transfer rules

It is pretty rare for judgments of the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) regarding the freedom of movement for workers and competition rules to grab news headlines. However, the ECJ’s ruling in C…
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Feb 07, 2024

Showing anti-competitiveness the red card

The European Union’s Court of Justice (“ECJ”) went into the 2023 winter break in style, publishing a hat-trick of judgments (hereafter referred to as SuperLeague, ISU, and Royal Antwerp) regarding the…
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Jul 12, 2023

Learning from the Trucks Cartel judgment: Mitigation

The Competition Appeal Tribunal’s judgment in Royal Mail and BT’s claim against DAF Trucks has provided welcome clarity on how the legal test for pass on should be applied. It provides helpful…
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May 09, 2023

The CMA’s Draft Sustainability Guidance

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) has published its long-awaited draft guidance on sustainability agreements between competitors (the “Draft Guidance”). In doing so, it acknowledges…
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Apr 20, 2023

Mastercard overcharge counterfactual declined – Tribunal rules in Merricks class action

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has handed down a judgment determining several preliminary issues in the £17 billion collective action brought against Mastercard in relation to anti-competitive…
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Mar 17, 2023

Financing losses and interest - simple pleasures or compounding the misery?

It has long been a mystery to economists, accountants and business people why lawyers have regard to simple interest in commercial cases, in circumstances where companies generally do not (and cannot)…
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May 26, 2021

BCLP’s Competition Collective: Antitrust, Foreign Investment and Trade Insights from around the world

BCLP’s global antitrust and competition collective guides you through the trends we saw in 2020 and sets out emerging trends in 2021 across four key areas: Cartels & Investigations, M&A, Litigation…
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Nov 13, 2020

Highly impactful - UK National Security & Investment Bill introduces mandatory Government review of a wide range of transactions

On 11 November, the UK Government introduced to Parliament the long-awaited National Security and Investment Bill. The Bill, which is expected to be enacted in Spring 2021, is a transformative event…
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Nov 11, 2020

Bound by prior admissions: Court of Appeal upholds the CAT’s abuse of process judgment against Truck Cartelists

The Court of Appeal has strongly dismissed an appeal against the Competition Appeal Tribunal’s (“CAT’s”) decision that it would be an abuse of process for certain truck manufacturers to seek to…
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