Max Findley is retired. A legal writer, editor and communications adviser, Max Findlay was also the editor of Competition Law Insight, the international antitrust law and policy journals. For many years, he worked as an independent legal journalist, writing leaders and articles for The Times, Financial Times, The Observer and a broad range of legal professional magazines. He has won a Clarity Award for plain legal language in a client agreement. Among major book publications, Max Findlay has worked as an external editorial adviser on Archbold: Pleading, Evidence and Practice in Criminal Cases (Sweet & Maxwell); Law and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration (Sweet & Maxwell) by Alan Redfern and Martin Hunter; Professional Partnership Handbook (Tolley) by Smith & Williamson; Internet Advertising of Pharmaceuticals (CF Müller) (multi-author); Promoting Medical Products in Europe and North America (multi-author); and Partnering and Collaborative Working (LLP) by David Jones, David Savage and Rona Westgate. Before becoming a journalist, Max Findlay practised as a barrister in a common law set of chambers and then worked as a managing editor in an international business and legal publishing house. He was educated at Worcester College, Oxford.
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Not playing nicely* Recently, there have been two striking cases of organisations behaving badly in a way that the outside world would think was well out of order. In the first example – the Roma Medical Aids case – it isn’t just about somebody breaking the rules. It’s about a company (...)
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Not playing nicely* Recently, there have been two striking cases of organisations behaving badly in a way that the outside world would think was well out of order. In the first example – the Roma Medical Aids case – it isn’t just about somebody breaking the rules. It’s about a company (...)
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Bully beef* Sometimes competition law looks as if it’s on the side of the bullies. Take, for example, the French Autorité de la concurrence’s recent decision in the Paris food retail sector case. The Autorité came up with the idea of using a new tool – a structural injunction – to tackle (...)
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Little, large and not proven* The big story for British sports fans has been the recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) in the FA Premier League / Karen Murphy case. Effectively, the ECJ has said that British viewers can buy live English Premier League football (...)
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Little, large and not proven* The big story for British sports fans has been the recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) in the FA Premier League / Karen Murphy case. Effectively, the ECJ has said that British viewers can buy live English Premier League football (...)
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Losing one’s dignity* We all lose our temper sometimes. The trick, of course, is to get something out of it rather than drop ourselves in it. But this is sometimes easier said than done. Take the UK supermarket giant Tesco. In August, it lost its rag after it’d been fined almost £10.5m by (...)
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Chaos theory* Naturally, we all want change to be orderly. This is particularly true when something goes wrong and someone official has to come in and sort it out. Take, for instance, the heat stabilisers cartel case. Earlier this month, the European Commission revoked the €101m fines it (...)
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Chaos theory* Naturally, we all want change to be orderly. This is particularly true when something goes wrong and someone official has to come in and sort it out. Take, for instance, the heat stabilisers cartel case. Earlier this month, the European Commission revoked the €101m fines it (...)
