Dawn raids: The Paris Court of Appeal admits that a potential victim of anti-competitive practices is admissible to intervene voluntarily as a main witness at the stage of the procedure for contesting operations of dawn raids in competition law related infractions (Notariat Services)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On November 4, 2020, the Paris Court of Appeal issued a decision that is of interest beyond that of the parties involved. By this orderthe Court has, as it were, closed the judicial part of the investigation phase of an ongoing case concerning anti-competitive practices that the Competition Authority suspects various notarial bodies, as well as the ADSN group (Association for the Development of Notarial Services) created by the notarial profession to have implemented. Taking the view that certain practices were aimed at pre-empting and blocking access to the sector providing services for notaries, in particular to support the development of the real