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Toys and Football: Double Win for OFT Confirmed on Replay

The Court of Appeal began its judgment in the Football Kit and Toys/Games appeals (Argos, Littlewoods and JJB v OFT [2006] EWCA Civ 1318) by criticising the length of the judgments of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), ...

Judicial Review in the CAT

As the new UK competition law regime continues to unfold, the Competition Appeal Tribunal ("CAT") has recently registered two firsts in relation to its judicial review jurisdiction under the Enterprise Act 2002 ("the 2002 ...

The Racecourse Association Ahead at the Finish Line

The Competition Appeal Tribunal's ("CAT") recent judgment in The Racecourse Association v OFT [2005] CAT 29 raises the important issue of the circumstances in which joint selling might be considered anti-competitive.  It is ...

From Rio to Meca: Another Step on the Winding Road of Competition and Sports Law

On 19 December 2003, a Football Association ("FA") disciplinary hearing found Rio Ferdinand, the Manchester United and England defender, guilty of failing to submit to drug testing, and imposed a fine of £50,000 and an eight- ...

Tetra Laval ~ Is That Really a Lioness in the Park?

"[S]ome things are inherently more likely than others. It would need more cogent evidence to satisfy one that the creature seen walking in Regent's Park was more likely than not to have been a lioness than to be satisfied to the same standard of ...

Courting Controversy

The British Energy (BE) rescue aid case is an interesting example of the crossover between judicial review in the High Court and judicial review in the European Courts in Luxembourg.  This is because the granting of state aid usually ...

Lladro Comercial SA

This decision - in which Lladró was found to have infringed Chapter I of the Competition Act but in which no penalty was imposed - raises a number of interesting ...