Pat has practices anti-trust and competition law for over 20 years. He has broad expertise of representing private and public clients form many sectors before the Irish Competition Authority and the European Commission in merger control and competition investigation cases. He has also conducted competition litigation in the Irish High Court, Supreme Court and European Courts. He is recognised as one of Ireland’s leading competition lawyers in legal directories including Chambers, Legal 500, PLC Which Lawyer? And Who’sWhoLegal. Pat was a partner with the Irish law firm Arthur Cox from 2000 to 2015 and is currently a Consultant with Arthur Cox since July 2015.
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This case concerned a private undertaking, Lifeline Ambulance Services Limited (“Lifeline”) that operates a fleet of ambulances and is engaged in the business of providing transport for hospital patients and others in need of such services brought against the State owned Health Service (...)
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This case involves an application for injunctive relief to restrain an alleged breach of Competition Law, namely the abuse of a dominant position under s.5 of the Competition Act 2002 (“the 2002 Act”) by engaging in predatory pricing. Whilst the case started off as a domestic Irish Competition (...)
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Introduction The Supreme Court decision of 28 July 2011 in Hegarty resolved a number of complex legal issues, but at the heart of the case is the continuing trend of Irish judges to interpret legislation in a manner which ensures the effective enforcement of competition law. It is this (...)
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This case concerns an allegation of a breach of dominant position contrary to the Irish Competition Act made by a private ambulance operator against the Health Service Executive, which is a public body that also operates ambulances. This judgment dealt with the preliminary issue as to whether (...)
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Ramadan Hemat v the Medical Council[2010] IESC 24 concerns a Supreme Court appeal arising out of a decision of Mr Justice McKechnie in the High Court. The question before the appeal court was whether the Medical Council was an association of undertakings for the purposes of competition law at (...)
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Nurendale Limited t/a Panda Waste Services v Dublin City Council & Ors arises out of a change (“Variation”) to the Waste Management Plan for the Dublin Region 2005-2010 made collectively by the four Dublin local authorities on 3 March 2008. Panda Waste Services (“Panda”) challenged this (...)
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Competition Authority v Beef Industry Developments Society Limited & Anor concerns a rationalisation agreement in the beef processing sector in Ireland. In 1998 a report (the McKinsey Report) found that there existed significant and substantial over-capacity in the beef industry and that (...)
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On 19th March, 2009, the Irish High Court annulled the decision of the Irish Competition Authority (“ICA”) to block Kerry Group’s proposed acquisition of one its major competitors, Breeo Foods. Kerry’s acquisition of Breeo was notified to the ICA in March 2008. The proposal affected a number (...)
