Derek Ridyard is an ordinary member of the London Competition Appeal Tribunal. He has 20 years experience as a consultant on the economics of competition law, prior to which he worked as an economist in the Office of Fair Trading in London. Before, he has worked on assignments for clients involved in some of the leading competition law cases in Europe, and has acted in competition law proceedings across a wide range of industries as diverse as banking, cement, grocery retailing, shipping and computer software. Derek has represented clients including Scandinavian Airlines, Ticketmaster, Unilever and Coca-Cola at competition law hearings. He has also appeared as an expert witness in court cases in London, Dublin and Oslo, and at a variety of arbitration proceedings. Derek has published numerous articles on subjects including the economics of merger control, vertical restraints, dominant firm pricing and intellectual property, and is a regular speaker at competition law conferences. He is a member of the editorial board of the European Competition Law Review, and of the Scientific Committee of the Global Competition law centre.
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Refining its Tool Kit – The ACCC’s decision to authorise RPM in the Tooltechnic case* In December 2014 Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (“the ACCC”) granted conditional authorisation to Tooltechnic Systems (Australia) Pty Ltd (“Tooltechnic”) to engage in minimum resale price (...)
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This article provides an overview of the current economic and policy thinking on minimum resale price maintenance (RPM), the practice whereby upstream suppliers enter into agreements with their downstream retailers or re-sellers which specify a minimum price at which they can sell their (...)
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The UK Enterprise Act introduced the market investigation, a new instrument that allows the Competition Commission (CC) to analyse markets in which there is “an absence of effective competition” and, where applicable, to implement remedies . The market investigation powers have been trumpeted (...)
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In March 2003 the OFT decided that Genzyme had infringed the UK Competition Act’s Chapter II prohibition (the UK analogue of EC Article 82) by bundling its product with associated home care services, and by imposing a margin squeeze on competing firms [Director General of Fair Trading, 27 (...)
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The OFT and CCAT found that the impact of Napp’s below-cost hospital pricing extended beyond the hospital segment because a brand’s sales in the hospital market were linked to outcomes in the community market. By denying competing brands access to hospital In any standard economics textbook (...)
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This foreword assesses some economic issues raised by the CJEU’s Slovak Telecom judgment. It analyses the distinction between essential facilities and other exclusionary practices, and explores the implications for the debate between form and effect. In March 2021 the CJEU issued its (...)
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The EU’s 2009 Article 102 Guidelines describe an effects-based approach to enforcing the law against dominant firm abuse. However, recent European Court Judgments have taken a more formalistic approach that relies on the case law. Some prominent critics of the Guidelines have argued that this (...)
2013 Competition Case Law Digest - A Synthesis of EU and National Leading Cases
