“Google’s spam website rules unfairly impinge on the company’s rivals in the vertical search market, a UK search engine has claimed.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th September 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Mobile phone operator O2 will appeal against Ofcom’s decision to allow a rival firm to launch superfast broadband services later this year using its existing network capabilities, according to media reports.”
OUT-LAW.com, 30th August 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The High Court has dismissed a court challenge by Camelot, operator of the National Lottery, which was seeking to have the gambling licence for its rival the Health Lottery revoked.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th August 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The UK’s primary regulator of competition issues has approved Facebook’s proposal to buy photo-sharing company Instagram.”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th August 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“BSkyB has won its appeal against Ofcom’s decision to force the company to cut the amount it charges rivals to show its flagship Sky Sports channels.”
The Guardian, 8th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Deutsche Bahn AG and others v Morgan Crucible and others: [2012] EWCA Civ 1055; [2012] WLR (D) 244
“Where an addressee of a decision of the European Commission that there had been an infringement of competition law appealed to the General Court of the European Union against that decision, the two-year limitation period for the bringing of ‘follow-on’ proceedings in the Competition Appeal Tribunal would not begin to run against any other addressees of the decision until the appeal had been determined.”
WLR Daily, 31st July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The competition regulator has said that BSkyB has too much power over pay-TV rivals, raising the possibility that the satellite company could face another investigation.”
The Guardian, 2nd August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The biggest hotel chain in the world and two online travel agents may have breached UK competition law by entering into agreements that limited the ability of those agents to discount the price of room-only offers, a UK regulator has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 31st July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Ofcom will set out a formal timetable for completing investigations into alleged breaches of competition law in the communications sector and will publish an explanation on its website if it fails to comply with its specified deadline, the regulator has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A tribute to outgoing Law Society President, John Wotton; a welcome to his successor, Lucy Scott‐Moncrieff, defender of the High Street law firm; examining the aims of Price Competitive Tendering and the likely results both for the Bar and for justice.”
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The Bar Council, August 2012
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
Compass-Datenbank GmbH v Republik Österreich (Case C-138/11); [2012] WLR (D) 202
“A public authority which, as part of its activities, stored, in a database, data which undertakings were obliged to report on the basis of statutory obligations, and which permitted interested persons to search for that data and/or provided them with print-outs thereof did not carry out an ‘economic activity’ and could not therefore be regarded, in the course of that activity, as an “undertaking” within the meaning of article 102FEU of the FEU Treaty.”
WLR Daily, 12th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Addison Lee taxi company is to take its battle to use London’s bus lanes to a higher court after it lost a judicial review of a ban on the tactic. The taxi firm, headed by millionaire Conservative party donor John Griffin, was hoping to overturn an April ruling in the high court that prevented its drivers from using bus lanes restricted to London buses and licensed black taxis.”
The Guardian, 11th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“In many cases where a person wishes to leave an employment and establish a new business, that person may wish to tell colleagues about the plans and to encourage them to join him or her in the new venture. It may be that there is disaffection in the workplace and that there is a general, if unexpressed, desire to move on.”
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11 KBW, 22nd June 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
“Lord Ramsbotham, a former prisons inspector, has condemned government plans to overhaul the probation service and promised to lead a rebellion of peers and politicians unless they are rewritten.”
The Guardian, 24th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“According to the Ministry of Justice, it was hoped that the Bribery Act 2010 would ‘provide a more effective legal framework to combat bribery in the public or private sectors’ and ‘help tackle the threat that bribery poses to economic progress and development around the world’.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 20th June 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“Businesses will be able to challenge land use restrictions put in place by major supermarkets to limit local competition from rival grocery outlets, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has announced.”
OUT-LAW.com, 20th June 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Potential concentrations of media power should be subject to regular, formal reviews, communications regulator Ofcom concluded on Tuesday in a document compiled for culture secretary Jeremy Hunt.”
The Guardian, 19th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Auto 24 SARL v Jaguar Land Rover France SAS (Case C-158/11); [2012] WLR (D) 175
“It had to be possible to verify the precise content of ‘specified criteria’ upon which a quantitative selective distribution system in the motor vehicle sector was granted pursuant to article 1(1)(f) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1400/2002 of 31 July 2002 on the application of article 81(3) of the Treaty to categories of vertical agreements and concerted practices in the motor vehicle sector (OJ 2002 L203, p 30).”
WLR Daily, 14th June 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has provisionally decided to refer the private motor insurance market to the Competition Commission after it found evidence that insurers compete in a ‘dysfunctional way’ that pushes up premiums by £225m a year.”
Daily Telegraph, 31st May 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The head of one of the UK’s biggest cab companies, Addison Lee, faces possible prosecution for instructing his drivers to ignore the law and use bus lanes in London.”
The Guardian, 21st May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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