Lucy is a Partner at Hausfeld. She specialises in competition litigation and has particular expertise in large-scale collective redress. Lucy started her career in the competition group at Slaughter and May, following which she moved to the Office of Fair Trading (now the Competition and Markets Authority) where she advised on competition and consumer law matters. Lucy joined Hausfeld in 2017 and her expertise has proven invaluable in its filing of two opt-out collective actions under the UK’s class actions regime introduced by the Consumer Rights Act 2015. Lucy has extensive experience of conducting litigation before the Competition Appeal Tribunal, the High Court and the Court of Appeal. She has also worked on European and domestic antitrust investigations for public and private companies, as well as for the regulator, and has experience of working on high-profile merger transactions. She has also appeared before the House of Lords EU Committee to give oral evidence on aspects of consumer law.
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Following its recent consultation on wide-ranging reforms to the UK’s competition and consumer law regimes, the UK Government recently published its response to feedback received from over 180 stakeholders and made clear its intention to legislate to promote competition and consumer rights in (...)
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London, 1 November 2021 - An opt-out collective claim on behalf of over 20 million UK consumers of home insurance has been filed today by Home Insurance Consumer Action against the companies behind Comparethemarket.com. The claim follows the Competition and Markets Authority’s finding last (...)
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In great news for train travellers today, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has approved our client, Mr Justin Gutmann, as class representative in his landmark standalone claim for abuses of dominance by the South Western and Southeastern rail franchises. The claims aim to put a stop to (...)
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The UK Government has launched the long-awaited Digital Markets Unit (DMU) to “help make sure tech giants such as Facebook and Google cannot exploit their market dominance.” The DMU, based in the Competition Markets Authority (CMA), kicked off its work in shadow, non-statutory form on 7 April (...)
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The Court of Appeal (CoA) judgment in Granville v Infineon concerns the scope of the claimant’s duty of reasonable diligence in circumstances where facts of the harmful conduct were concealed from the claimant. The CoA dismissed the defendants’ appeal and confirmed that the High Court was (...)
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Following a rolled-up hearing comprising a panel of three judges sitting as both the Court of Appeal and the Divisional Court, a judgment earlier this month has provided helpful clarity on two important aspects relating to the collective proceedings regime : (i) the extent to which litigation (...)
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On 1 July 2020, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority published its long-awaited final report of its online platforms and digital advertising market study (CMA Final Report). In so doing, it has confirmed what many have been saying for some time : serious competition concerns exist in (...)
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The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) released its much anticipated interim report (the “Interim Report”) on its market study into online platforms and digital advertising (the “Market Study”) on 18 December 2019, following the publication of its statement of scope in July 2019 (...)
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A recent judgment by the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (the “Tribunal”) in the Trucks collective actions regarding funding and adverse costs arrangements is welcome news for class claimants and undoubtedly positive for the development of the UK’s young collective actions regime. The judgment (...)
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On 16 April 2019, the UK Court of Appeal handed down what is undoubtedly the most significant ruling to date for the UK’s young collective actions regime. The Judgment in Merricks v Mastercard overturned the Competition Appeal Tribunal’s prior ruling refusing certification of Walter Merricks’ (...)
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As part of a larger trend in Europe, the Dutch Parliament has passed legislation that will enable opt-out damages claims in relation to a broad range of causes of action, including antitrust infringements and those based on violations of consumer, environmental, and data protection laws. The (...)
