

Justin Coombs
Justin Coombs is an Executive Vice President and head of Compass Lexecon’s London Office. Justin has 20 years’ experience as an applied economist specialising in competition policy and economic regulation. During his economic consulting career Justin has advised clients in cases before the UK Competition Commission, the Office of Fair Trading and the European Commission and has provided expert reports to the Competition Appeal Tribunal and the European Union General Court. During his career he has given oral evidence at numerous Competition Commission hearings as well as before Parliamentary select committees. Prior to his career as an economic consultant Justin was a Director at the Office of Fair Trading where he was in charge of the enforcement of UK and EC anti-trust law in the service sector of the UK economy. During his career at the OFT, he advised on a wide range of competition policy cases and drafted many of the OFT’s guidelines on UK competition law, including its guidelines on market definition and abuse of dominance. Justin has also worked at Ofgem, the UK energy regulator, where he was the Director responsible for regulation of the gas and electricity transmission networks in Great Britain.
Auteurs associés
4123 | Conférences
Articles
14719 Bulletin
914
An MFC is an agreement between a supplier and an individual customer, where the supplier agrees that it will not supply another customer on more favourable terms than the first customer. For example, suppose that a supplier has two customers : A and B. If the supplier agrees an MFC with customer A it is promising that it will not offer B a better price (or other better terms and conditions) than it is offering to A. In more extreme cases, the supplier might agree that customer A will always pay a lower price than customer B.
5848
The Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (“Ofgem”) the gas and electricity regulator in Great Britain has decided that EDF Energy (“EDFE”) has not infringed Article 82 of the EC Treaty or section 18 (the “Chapter II prohibition”) of the Competition Act 1998 by refusing to supply other suppliers of (...)
7957
Summary The Office of Communications (“Ofcom”) has decided to close an investigation under Articles 81 and 82, and equivalent UK national competition law, into the price of telephone services to hospital patients. Patientline plc (“Patientline”) and Premier Telecom Contracts Limited (“Premier”), (...)
Livres

This second edition of the Digest is enriched with a selection of more than 50 essays on European competition case law from the 27 European Union Member States, EU law, and US law. Each essay (...)