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Christopher Brown

Matrix Chambers (London)

Barrister

Christopher Brown is a barrister at Matrix Chambers in London. His practice focuses on competition law and general EU law. Before joining Matrix in 2009, Christopher Brown served as a Referendaire to the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). Recent and pending cases in which Christopher Brown has been involved include Singapore Airlines v Commission (air cargo, GCEU) ; Asda and Others v MasterCard Inc and Others (interchange fee litigation, Commercial Court) ; and Co-operative Group v OFT (appeal against OFT’s Tobacco infringement decision, CAT). Christopher co-convenes the UK competition law module on the LLM at King’s College London. He has written extensively on EU and competition law, including as a contributing author of Bellamy and Child’s European Union Law of Competition.

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Articles

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Christopher Brown The EU Court of Justice AG Jääskinen postulates that the EU principle of effectiveness precludes a provision of national law which makes the grant of access to documents by a national court subject to the consent of the antitrust infringers (Donau Chemie)

7 février 2013 239

Pfleiderer revisited : the AG Opinion in Donau Chemie* On 7 February, AG Jääskinen issued his Opinion in Case C-536/11 Donau Chemie, a much anticipated case (at least among competition lawyers) concerning the compatibility with EU law of an Austrian law which prohibits third party access to (...)

Christopher Brown The EUCJ Advocate General Kokott asserts that agreements with an anti-competitive object cannot be deemed as de minimis infringements (Expedia)

6 septembre 2012 286

The concept of ‘appreciable restriction of competition’ in ‘object’ cases under Article 101(1) TFEU – AG Kokott in Expedia* On 6 September 2012 AG Kokott issued her Opinion in Case C-226/11 Expedia Inc. The case results from a preliminary reference made by the French Cour de cassation in (...)

Christopher Brown The UK High Court grants an interim injunction against the use by private hire vehicles of bus lanes marked for taxis (Transport for London)

26 avril 2012 178

Taxi wars in London – does EU law have a role to play ?* On Thursday of last week the High Court granted Transport for London (TfL) an interim injunction relating to the high-profile raising of the stakes in its battle with Addison Lee (AL), the largest “private hire” (ie minicab) operator (...)

Christopher Brown The UK High Court rules in favour of partial disclosure of documents in an action for damages allegedly caused by the gas insulated switchgear cartel (National Grid Electricity)

4 avril 2012 198

National Grid – shining Pfleiderer’s light on access to EU leniency documents* A while ago I blogged on an important development in the General Court relating to the ability of victims of cartels and other anti-competitive practices to get their hands on relevant evidence enabling them to (...)

Christopher Brown The EU General Court considers the right of public access to documents in the context of cartel damages actions (CDC Hydrogene Peroxide)

15 décembre 2011 146

Access to documents under Reg 1049/2001 and private enforcement of EU competition law – the CDC Hydrogene Peroxide judgment* As usual, the EU Courts handed down judgment in a number of cases shortly before Christmas. EUtopia law will be posting blogs on one or two of them in the days and (...)

2480 Revue

Margaret Gray, Maya Lester, Cerry Darbon, Gerry Facenna, Christopher Brown, Elisa Holmes EU Competition Law : Procedures and Remedies

septembre 2006 87

Cette rubrique Livres recense et commente les ouvrages et autres publications en droit de la concurrence, droit & économie de la concurrence et en droit de la régulation. Une telle recension ne peut par nature être exhaustive et se limite donc à présenter quelques publications récentes (...)

Antonello Schettino, Assimakis Komninos, Christopher Brown, Ekaterina Rousseva, Gianluca Faella, Victoria Mertikopoulou Efficiency defences in abuse of dominance cases

mai 2014 2393

L’existence et l’application de la soi-disant "exception d’efficience" de l’article 102 du TFUE ont fait l’objet de grandes discussions ces dernières années. Le document d’orientation de 2009 a donné un nouvel essor à la notion. Les articles réunis dans ce tendances donnent le point de vue de (...)