Sandrine Delarue

A. Introduction In its judgment of 1 March 2006 the England and Wales High Court (Commercial Court) ("the High Court") made an important ruling on the severability of a non-competition clause in the context of the termination of an exclusive distributorship agreement. The High Court held (...)

1. Introduction In this Decision, the Office of Fair Trading ("OFT") accepted for the first time binding commitments following a Competition Act 1998 ("1998 Act") investigation. The investigation related to possible infringements of Chapter I and Chapter II of the 1998 Act. The commitments (...)

1. Introduction The Competition Appeal Tribunal (“CAT”) Order of 30 June 2004 relates to the unusual situation where the Office of Fair Trading ("OFT") decided not to contest the appeal against its decision. In its Order, the CAT set aside the OFT’s decision, subject to the OFT giving (...)

1. Introduction In this decision, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) made an important ruling on whether an appeal was available to a third party complainant against an OFT decision to close an investigation following receipt of ’voluntary informal assurances’ from the author of the (...)

A. Introduction On 1 August 2002, the Competition Commission Appeal CCAT ("the CCAT") made an important ruling on the application of competition law to publically financed healthcare bodies. In over-ruling the decision of the Office of Fair Trading ("the OFT"), the CCAT held that the North (...)

A. Introduction On 17 September 2001 the United Kingdom Competition Commission Appeal Tribunal ("the CCAT") made an important ruling by deciding, contrary to the Director General of Fair Trading, that the General Insurance Standards Council’s ("the GISC") rules infringed the Chapter I (...)