Richard Whish
King’s College (London)
Solicitor, Author
Emeritus Professor Richard Whish is a legal academic and author. He is a qualified solicitor and was in legal practice in London from 1989 to 1998. He was admitted in 1977. He has been recommended for his contribution to competition law and policy, in the UK, the European Union and in many other countries with competition laws throughout the world. Professor Whish has published many books and articles on competition law, and contributed to many others. In particular he is the co-author of Competition Law, 7th edition 2012. Professor Whish has advised various Governments and competition authorities on competition law and policy, and has had an influence on the development of various competition laws and on soft law guidance. His nomination also focuses on his contribution to the development of many postgraduate courses on competition law and policy at King’s College London, where he is now Emeritus Professor, having been a Professor of Law there from 1991 to 2013. For many years he was also a Visiting Professor of Law at the College of Europe in Bruges. Professor Whish was a member of the Advisory Panel of the Director General of Fair Trading from 2001 to 2003, and a non-executive director of the Board of the Office of Fair Trading from 2003 to 2009. He was also a member of the Board of the Singapore Energy Markets Authority from 2005 to 2011. In 2014 Professor Whish was appointed Queen’s Counsel Honoris Causa. The award is made to lawyers who have made a major contribution to the law of England & Wales outside practice in the courts.
Auteurs associés
Anne Wachsmann
Linklaters (Paris)
Damien Geradin
University of Tilburg
Edouard Sarrazin
DLA Piper (Paris)
Rita Wezenbeek
DG COMP (Brussels)
Silvio Meli
Superior Courts of Malta
Laurence Idot
University Paris II Panthéon‑Assas
Bruno Lasserre
French State Council (Paris)
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Articles
48887 Bulletin
3385
In this case the Maltese Commission had to decide whether the fact that the Electronics Communications Authority of Malta had a regulatory jurisdiction in relation to various telecommunications services in Malta prevented the Office of Fair Competition from investigating a complaint by Vodafone (...)
3387
This preliminary judgement was brought about after the telecommunications undertaking that was subjected to the investigations of the Director of Fair Trading, hereinafter referred to as the “Director” (based on the Malta Competition Act), protested and held that he was precluded from doing so. (...)
3930
Competition law controls the anti-competitive agreements and the abusive behaviour of undertakings, but much anti-competitive behaviour is caused by the state. Complainants are often frustrated when they discover that the conduct of which they complain is attributable to the state acting in its (...)
3439
This decision concerns the request for the granting of an individual exemption (based on the Malta Competition Act) of certain ingrained anti-competitive practices carried out by the applicant co-operative in the funeral transport market. After a detailed examination of the essential requites (...)
2452
In this case, the Maltese Commission for Fair Trading reached again the conclusion that there had been an infringement of the Competition Act. It concluded that the General Soft Drinks Co (’GSD’) had abused a dominant position in the market for one-litre bottles of carbonated soft drinks by (...)
3507
If there is one activity, above all, that competition law should combat, it is the horizontal cartel : firms that should, in a market-based economy, compete with one another for business should not be able to cooperate with one another, for example by fixing prices, sharing markets and (...)
2616
The decision concerns a circular issued by the applicant company to entrepreneurs who participate in the fairs and exhibitions it organizes. The specific issue raised concerned the granting of the right of preference to past exhibitors on the basis that these would have already invested in the (...)
3210
This case can be regarded as a landmark in the evolution of competition law in Malta : for the first time the Commission handed down a judgment in which it found that an infringement of the Competition Act had been committed. The Commission held that Malta Dairy Products Ltd (’MDPL’) held a (...)
3044
The General Retailers and Traders Union was concerned about the effect of a series of acquisitions of popular supermarkets in Malta by operators already involved in the same sector : could this be detrimental to other players in the market ? In other words, the issue was one of concentration at (...)
3474
The complainant operated a newsagency in the Departure Lounge at Malta International Airport. When the Airport Authority invited tenders for new leases of premises at the airport, the complainant enjoyed a right of first refusal. However, the dominant importer of newspapers and periodicals, (...)
2648
In the present case the Maltese Office of Fair Competition had received a complaint in June 1996 concerning the sale of cigarettes through automatic vending machines. The Office investigated the complaint, and concluded that there was no infringement of the 1994 Act with the result that the (...)
2448
The purpose of competition law is to enhance consumer welfare : the most obvious infringement of the law is a horizontal agreement whereby the members of a cartel impose higher prices on their customers. However, many cases do not fit this fact pattern : often one of the parties to an (...)
2467
This decision concerns a request for the granting of an individual exemption (based on the Malta Competition Act) concerning various exclusivity agreements that the local manufacturer of Coca-Cola had entered into with a considerable number of outlets. It is also to be noted that this request (...)
2548
The merits examined here are identical to those relative to Request Number 1 of 1997. To avoid useless repetition reference is made to the decision following that request.
2752
The decision concerns a request for the granting of an individual exemption (based on the Malta Competition Act) to agreements already entered into by applicant company binding resellers of its products. The request centred around the fact that the termination of these agreements was going to (...)
3580
The first judgment of the Commission concerned the price of beer. This case was brought under section 11 of the Competition Act, as originally drafted, under which power existed to regulate the price of ’essential’ products. This provision was not without controversy. In a competition-based (...)
16444 Revue
2625
De nombreuses questions ont été examinées par la Commission maltaise durant les dix premières années de la Loi maltaise sur la concurrence, aussi bien au niveau du fond que de la procédure. La confrontation de l’économie maltaise et des parties intéressées à un droit de la concurrence renforcé n’a pas (...)
1650
The fourth roundtable of the conference “New frontiers of Antitrust”, Paris, 10 February 2012, was dedicated to the distinction between anticompetitive object and anticompetitive effect. In the first contribution, Richard Whish, Professor at the King’s College of London, provides some introductory (...)
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Cet article présente les principales options de réforme de l’article 82 CE dans le contexte de la diffusion par la Commission d’un projet de lignes directrices rendues publiques pour consultation début 2006. Les contributions rassemblées permettent de confronter différents points de vue notamment (...)
