Katharine (Wilson) Hastie-Oldland is a legal director with the Competition and Markets Authority in London. She works on mergers, market investigations and other antitrust enforcement matters.
2093
The situation of BT and the assessment of the valuation of its fibre optic hereditament is not comparable to that of Vtesse and therefore it is impossible to say whether BT has been given any unfair advantage or more favourable treatment contrary to the broad principles of Article 87 EC. (...)
2441
Factual Background This case concerns private medical insurance and its operation in the Irish market. Private medical insurance ("PMI") was formally introduced in Ireland in 1957 with the establishment of the Voluntary Health Insurance Board (the "VHI"), in order to enable persons not (...)
1568
An element of the charging regime for track access rights was not unlawful state aid. There was no benefit or advantage which distorted or threatened to distort competition by favouring open access operators as opposed to franchise operators as their situations were so different. Factual (...)
2052
Brief description of the facts and legal issues The High Court refused an application for a stay in proceedings seeking recovery of State aid as Ryanair had failed to demonstrate that it would suffer irreparable harm if the stay was not granted. Parties: The plaintiff: Kingdom of Belgium (...)
1897
An application for judicial review challenging a planning decision made by the Department of the Environment. In relation to the State aid issues raised the Court held that the grant of planning permission did not engage article 87(1) EC since there was no transfer, relinquishment or depletion (...)
