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Alison Jones

King’s College (London), Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (London)

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Alison Jones is Professor of Law at King’s and a solicitor at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. Alison is co-author of Jones and Sufrin on EU Competition Law, a Regional Editor for The Restitution Law Review and writes two of the Centre of European Law’s modules for the Diploma in EU competition law. She is also Director of the LLB Law with European Legal Studies programme.

Distinctions

Nominee, 2022 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Concerted Practices

Nominee, 2021 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, General Antitrust

Nominee, 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Concerted Practices

Nominee, 2018 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Concerted Practices

Winner, 2017 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Procedure

Winner, 2015 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Mergers

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28 Apr 2021 Webinar Innovation Economics Conference for Antitrust Lawyers #2 Geopolitics of platforms regulation See documents

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Alastair Chapman, Alison Jones, David Aitman Financial services and competition law: An overview of EU and national case law

24 July 2014 718

1. Financial crisis We are writing this foreword during a period of virtually unprecedented economic disarray. At the time of drafting, a deal has just been hammered out to protect Greece from default on its sovereign debt, but uncertainty still remains as to whether other Eurozone countries (...)

Alison Jones, Joanna Goyder Vertical Agreements and competition law: An overview of EU and national case law

20 March 2013 900

1. Introduction This article reviews EU cases reported in e-Competitions and dealing with the application of Article 101, or its national equivalent, to vertical agreements in 2012. Previous special issues have also dealt with vertical agreements and, more specifically, with agency (...)

Alison Jones The UK Office of Fair Trading updates its position on the newspaper and magazine sector

11 March 2008 2376

On the 11 March 2008 the OFT published a press release, providing an update on distinct, but linked, work strands regarding the newspaper and magazine sector : (a) the preparation of guidance to assist publishers and distributors in assessing for themselves whether their newspaper and (...)

Alison Jones The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal rules on two follow-on damages’ claims (Emerson Electric / Morgan Crucible)

17 October 2007 3455

Introduction This note considers antitrust private enforcement in the UK ; it should be read together with two other recent cases (A. Jones, The UK Court of Appeal rejects an allegation of unreasonable refusal to supply and unlawful discriminatory pricing (Attheraces/British Horseracing (...)

Alison Jones The England & Wales High Court grants an interim order requiring a dominant telephone operator to engage in conduct which will enable the complainant to launch a new mobile telephony service (Software Cellular Network / T-Mobile)

17 July 2007 5485

Introduction and Background to the Claim In Software Cellular Network Limited v. T-Mobile (UK) Limited, the High Court, found that the applicant, which trades as Truphone, had made out an arguable case that the respondent, T-Mobile, had violated section 18 of the Competition Act 1998 (...)

Alison Jones The England & Wales High Court rejects a claim of predatory behavior on a local bus transport services market (Chester City Transport / Arriva)

15 June 2007 5560

Introduction and Background to the Claim In Chester City Council and Chester City Transport Limited v. Arriva Plc, Arriva Cymru Limited and Arriva North West Limited [2007] EWHC 1373 (Ch), the High Court of Justice had to consider a claim brought by Chester City Council (‘the Council’) and (...)

Alison Jones The England & Wales High Court rules that, although Art. 82 EC does not contain a declaration of nullity equivalent to Art. 81 EC, the effects are the same (English Welsh & Scottish Railway / E.ON)

23 March 2007 4026

This note considers antitrust private enforcement in the UK; it should be read together with other cases recently heard by the “ordinary” courts (the High Court and Court of Appeal) and two follow-on damages’ claims which have been lodged before the specialist Competition Appeal Tribunal (...)

Alison Jones The England & Wales High Court rules on interim injunction for an alleged unlawful refusal to supply in the pharmaceutical sector (AAH Pharmaceuticals / Pfizer-UniChem)

5 March 2007 5505

This note considers one of the two cases recently heard by the “ordinary” courts (the High Court and Court of Appeal) (See also A. Jones, The UK Court of Appeal rejects an allegation of unreasonable refusal to supply and unlawful discriminatory pricing (Attheraces/British Horseracing Board), (...)

Alison Jones The England & Wales Court of Appeal rejects an allegation of unreasonable refusal to supply and unlawful discriminatory pricing (Attheraces / British Horseracing Board)

2 February 2007 8190

Introduction This note considers one of the two cases recently heard by the “ordinary” courts (the High Court and Court of Appeal) (See also A. Jones, The UK Hight Court rules on interim unjunction for an alleged unlawful refusal to supply in the pharmaceutical sector (AAH (...)

Alison Jones The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal grants interim relief in ’follow on’ damages claim (Healthcare at Home / Genzyme)

11 January 2007 5286

The Competition Appeal Tribunal’s (the “CAT”) judgment in Healthcare at Home Ltd v Genzyme Limited, 15 November 2006, concerned a claim for “interim payment” in proceedings brought by Healthcare at Home (the “claimant”) against Genzyme Limited (“Genzyme”). Under section 47A of the UK (...)

Alex Potter, Alison Jones The UK Office of Fair Trading accepts commitments offered by a free newspaper alleviating its exclusive distribution rights in London underground and train stations (Associated Newspapers)

1 March 2006 8020

On 1st March 2006 the OFT adopted a decision accepting binding commitments offered by Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL). Accordingly, the OFT closed its file in respect of an investigation into an alleged breach by ANL of UK and EC competition rules through the conclusion of contracts (...)

Alison Jones The UK OFT proposes for the first time a settlement in order to cease information exchange and price-fixing (Independent Schools)

9 November 2005 2763

In recent years the Office of Fair Trading (the “OFT”) has been concerned about exchanges of information by UK independent schools. For some years it has been conducting an investigation into allegations of price fixing, through a voluntary exchange of information, by 50 independent schools (...)

Alex Potter, Alison Jones The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal issues a key judgment on margin squeeze and rebates in the pharmaceutical sector (Healthcare at Home / Genzyme)

29 September 2005 6732

In Genzyme Limited v. OFT, 29 September 2005, the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (the “CAT”) tackled the difficult question of how to bring an abusive margin squeeze to an end and to ensure it was not repeated. The background to the proceedings was that the OFT had issued a decision (...)

Alex Potter, Alison Jones The UK Competition Authority finds collective agreement between banks setting the multilateral interchange fee contrary to both EC and national competition provisions (MasterCard)

6 September 2005 3373

On 6 September the UK Office of Fair Trading issued a decision concluding that the collective agreement between members of MasterCard UK Members Forum setting a fallback multilateral interchange fee infringed Article 81 EC and Chapter I of the Competition Act 1998. The Decision only concerns (...)

Alex Potter, Alison Jones The UK OFT issues a draft opinion indicating that exclusive newspaper distribution arrangements granting absolute territorial protection are compatible with UK and EC competition law ("Distribution arrangements between newspaper and magazine publishers and wholesalers")

16 June 2005 10422

In order to ensure consistency with the EC regime, the UK system for notification of agreements under the Competition Act 1998 (the CA) was abolished on 1 May 2004. The OFT does not therefore accept notifications for decision or guidance under the Act. The OFT, however, continues to offer a (...)

63 Review

Alison Jones, Brenda Sufrin, Niamh Dunne Jones & Sufrin’s EU Competition Law (ed.7), Alison JONES, Brenda SUFRIN and Niamh DUNNE

November 2019 63

This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)