Bruce Kilpatrick

UK FDI Hub: COVID-19 and foreign direct investment regulation* Introduction The OECD reports that even if economies begin recovering in the second half of the year, foreign direct investment (FDI) flows are expected to fall more than 30% in 2020 from 2019 levels, as a result of the policy (...)

Description of the impugned case The OFT’s Chapter I investigation was initiated in March 2003 following receipt of information from Sainsbury under the OFT’s leniency policy, which, along with information obtained during a previous Chapter II investigation into ITL, gave the OFT reasonable (...)

Description of the impugned case This joint judgment concerned two cases of straightforward RPM concerning, respectively, replica football kits and Hasbro toys and games, that broadened into horizontal collusion. Each case involved vertical RPM agreements and a «horizontal« collusive agreement (...)

Description of the impugned case The DGFT began an investigation under the Competition Act 1998, following complaints from three independent UK-based retailers, to determine whether selective distribution agreements concluded between Lladró Comercial, a manufacturer and supplier of porcelain (...)

Description of the impugned case Branded prescription only medicines and branded OTC medicines were granted an exemption in 1970 from the general prohibition of resale price maintenance in the Resale Prices Act 1964. After reviewing the position in 1995, the OFT decided to apply to the (...)

Description of the impugned case Three orders of the Restrictive Practices Court in the 1960s declared that the Net Book Agreement under which the resale prices of books and certain related goods could be maintained by publishers were in the public interest. Following changes in the (...)