


Alison Jones
Alison Jones is Professor of Law at King’s and a solicitor at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Alison is co-author of Jones and Sufrin on EU Competition Law (4th edn, OUP, 2010) and author or Restitution and European Community Law (LLP, 2000). She has also published a number of chapters in books and articles in law journals.
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1. Financial crisis We are writing this foreword during a period of virtually unprecedented economic disarray. At the time of drafting, a deal has just been hammered out to protect Greece from default on its sovereign debt, but uncertainty still remains as to whether other Eurozone countries - (...)
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1. Introduction This article reviews EU cases reported in e-Competitions and dealing with the application of Article 101, or its national equivalent, to vertical agreements in 2012. Previous special issues have also dealt with vertical agreements and, more specifically, with agency (...)
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On the 11 March 2008 the OFT published a press release, providing an update on distinct, but linked, work strands regarding the newspaper and magazine sector : (a) the preparation of guidance to assist publishers and distributors in assessing for themselves whether their newspaper and magazine (...)
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Introduction This note considers antitrust private enforcement in the UK ; it should be read together with two other recent cases (A. Jones, The UK Court of Appeal rejects an allegation of unreasonable refusal to supply and unlawful discriminatory pricing (Attheraces/British Horseracing (...)
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Introduction and Background to the Claim In Software Cellular Network Limited v. T-Mobile (UK) Limited, the High Court, found that the applicant, which trades as Truphone, had made out an arguable case that the respondent, T-Mobile, had violated section 18 of the Competition Act 1998 (modelled (...)
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Introduction and Background to the Claim In Chester City Council and Chester City Transport Limited v. Arriva Plc, Arriva Cymru Limited and Arriva North West Limited [2007] EWHC 1373 (Ch), the High Court of Justice had to consider a claim brought by Chester City Council (‘the Council’) and (...)
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This note considers antitrust private enforcement in the UK; it should be read together with other cases recently heard by the “ordinary” courts (the High Court and Court of Appeal) and two follow-on damages’ claims which have been lodged before the specialist Competition Appeal Tribunal (...)
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This note considers one of the two cases recently heard by the “ordinary” courts (the High Court and Court of Appeal) (See also A. Jones, The UK Court of Appeal rejects an allegation of unreasonable refusal to supply and unlawful discriminatory pricing (Attheraces/British Horseracing Board), (...)
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Introduction This note considers one of the two cases recently heard by the “ordinary” courts (the High Court and Court of Appeal) (See also A. Jones, The UK Hight Court rules on interim unjunction for an alleged unlawful refusal to supply in the pharmaceutical sector (AAH (...)
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The Competition Appeal Tribunal’s (the “CAT”) judgment in Healthcare at Home Ltd v Genzyme Limited, 15 November 2006, concerned a claim for “interim payment” in proceedings brought by Healthcare at Home (the “claimant”) against Genzyme Limited (“Genzyme”). Under section 47A of the UK Competition Act (...)
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On 1st March 2006 the OFT adopted a decision accepting binding commitments offered by Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL). Accordingly, the OFT closed its file in respect of an investigation into an alleged breach by ANL of UK and EC competition rules through the conclusion of contracts (...)
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In recent years the Office of Fair Trading (the “OFT”) has been concerned about exchanges of information by UK independent schools. For some years it has been conducting an investigation into allegations of price fixing, through a voluntary exchange of information, by 50 independent schools with (...)
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In Genzyme Limited v. OFT, 29 September 2005, the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (the “CAT”) tackled the difficult question of how to bring an abusive margin squeeze to an end and to ensure it was not repeated. The background to the proceedings was that the OFT had issued a decision (Director (...)
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On 6 September the UK Office of Fair Trading issued a decision concluding that the collective agreement between members of MasterCard UK Members Forum setting a fallback multilateral interchange fee infringed Article 81 EC and Chapter I of the Competition Act 1998. The Decision only concerns (...)
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In order to ensure consistency with the EC regime, the UK system for notification of agreements under the Competition Act 1998 (the CA) was abolished on 1 May 2004. The OFT does not therefore accept notifications for decision or guidance under the Act. The OFT, however, continues to offer a (...)
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The purpose of this book is to compare and contrast EU competition case law with European Members States competition case law, and Members States competition case law with each other. To the best (...)