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Competition and Telecommunications Law
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Elisa Holmes

MPhil (Oxon); BCL (Oxon); LLB(Hons)(Adel); BA (UniSA)
Call date: 2003 1998 (Australia)

Summary

Elisa specialises in competition law, public procurement, European law, regulation and public and administrative law. She also practices in general commercial law and sports law and has many years of advisory and advocacy experience in these areas. She has over eight years of experience regularly appearing in courts and tribunals, including appellate courts, both in England and Australia. She is a member of the Procurement Lawyers Association and in particular the remedies working group concerned with the implementation of the new public procurement remedies Directive. She is a committee member of the Bar European Group and a member also of the Administrative Law Bar Association, the Commercial Bar Association and the Human Rights Lawyers' Association.

Her most recent cases include:

  • Barclays Bank & others -v- Competition Commission [2009] CAT 27
  • European Dynamics SA v HM Treasury (sued as buying Solutions) [2009] EWHC 3419 (TCC)
  • Case No. 1116/4/8/09 Sports Direct International PLC v Competition Commission
  • J B Leadbitter & Co Limited v Devon County Council [2009] EWHC 930 (Ch) 
  • Case No. 1109/6/8/09 Barclays  Bank Plc v The Competition Commission
  • EDS v Transport for London (Queen's Bench Division)(Led by Paul Lasok QC)
  • Letting International Ltd v London Borough of Newham (Court of Appeal)(Own right)
  • Letting International Ltd v London Borough of Newham (Queen's Bench Division)(Led by Rupert Anderson QC)
  • Sky & Virgin -v- Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and Competition Commission [2010] EWCA Civ 2; [2008] CAT 1 (Led by Rupert Anderson QC in substantive hearing and in own right in remedies hearing)
  • British Amateur Weightlifters Association (Court of Arbitration for Sport)(Own right)
  • Tesco Plc v The Competition Commission (Competition Appeal Tribunal)(Instructed in own right for intervening party)
  • Lion Apparel Systems Limited v Firebuy Limited (Chancery Division) (Instructed in own right for intervening party)