Bruce specialises in all aspects of UK and EC competition and merger control law and has acted on a wide range of major competition law cases both in Brussels and in London. He has represented clients across a variety of sectors, including financial services, IT, industry, transport and retail. Bruce has represented clients before the OFT, Competition Commission and European Commission as well as the Competition Appeal Tribunal and Court of First Instance in Luxembourg. Recent case highlights include the Competition Commission’s investigations into the Northern Ireland personal current account market and payment protection insurance market and the Competition Commission’s inquiry into the joint venture between Kemira Growhow and Terra’s UK fertiliser and process chemicals businesses.
2364
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 (...)
841
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 (...)
715
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 (...)
1306
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 (...)
799
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 (...)
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