Ben Rayment

MA (Cambridge), BCL (Oxford)
Call date: 1996

Summary

Ben is a former Legal Secretary to the UK Competition Commission/Competition Appeal Tribunal.  Ben has experience of a wide variety of litigation and advisory work.

Recent cases

Extensive experience of all the major appeals and judicial review proceedings brought under the Competition Act 1998, the Enterprise Act 2002 and the Communications Act 2003.

  • Moy Park Limited & ors v Evonik Degussa GmbH (methionine multi jurisdictional CAT damages claim)
  • Nokia v. Hitachi & ors (alleged LCD and CRT cartels, multi-Defendant, multi-jurisdictional High Court damages action)
  • Waha Oil Company v Dunlop Oil & Marine (marine hose cartel damages claim)
  • BAA v. Competition Commission [2009] CAT (Enterprise Act s.179, judicial review challenge to CC's decision to order divestiture of Gatwick, Stansted and Glasgow/Edinburgh airports)
  • Emerald Supplies Ltd v British Airways plc [2008] Ch D (air cargo cartel damages claim)
  • National Grid plc v Ofgem [2008] CAT (abuse of a dominant position)
  • R (Cityhook Ltd) v OFT [2008] Admin Court (legality of OFT case prioritisation policy)
  • HMRC v. Isle of Wight Council & others Case (2008) C-288/07 (correct meaning of Article 4(5) 6th Directive, "significant distortions of competition")
  • Jersey Telecom Ltd v Jersey Competition and Regulatory Authority - introduction of mobile number portability to Jersey.
  • H3G, BT and O2 v. Ofcom (CAT) [2007] (mobile call termination)
  • Emerson Electric Co & Others v The Morgan Crucible Company plc [2007]. Damages claim based on an international cartel in the electrical carbon products market. (pending)
  • AAH Pharmaceuticals Ltd & Others v Pfizer [2007]. Successfully defended Pfizer against an application for an interim injunction based on EC and UK competition law seeking to restrain it from implementing its UK distribution arrangements.
  • Stericycle International LLC v Competition Commission [2006] CAT 21. Successfully represented the CC against the first challenge to its powers to impose a hold separate manager to manage an acquired business pending the outcome of its inquiry into a completed merger.
  • Association of Convenience Stores v OFT [2005] CAT 36: represented ACS in the first successful judicial review before the CAT of a decision by the OFT not to refer the major supermarkets to the Competition Commission under the Enterprise Act 2002.
  • Aqua Resources Ltd v Director General of Water Services (2005), CAT: Competition Act 1998, whether appealable decision, refusal to provide common carriage