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Case T-448/05 Oxley Thread v Commission, judgment of the General Court

In its judgment of 28 April 2010, the General Court has rejected Oxley Thread Ltd's appeal against a penalty imposed by the European Commission in cartel proceedings.  Oxley's appeal was one of several against the same ...

Emerald Supplies Ltd v British Airways Plc - pub. E.C.L.R. Issue 3, 2010

This material was first published by E.C.L.R Limited in E.C.L.R. Issue 3, 2010 and is reproduced by agreement with the ...

Case C-291/07 Kollektivavtalsstiftelsen TRR Trygghetsrådet

In this case the ECJ addressed the place of supply rules for certain cross-border services where the customer uses the services only for the purposes of activities which are not subject to VAT.  Its decision is designed to achieve ...

Procurement - Recent developments in Northern Ireland

The development of procurement jurisprudence continues apace in the High Court in Northern Ireland.  Two recent judgments have been handed down arising out of procurement exercises carried out by the Central Procurement Directorate ("CPD"), ...

Gallagher (Valuation Officer) v Church of Latter-Day Saints (2008) UKHL 56

In Gallagher the House of Lords considered whether certain buildings within a complex belonging to the Mormon church in Lancashire were exempt from liability to non-domestic rates under paragraph 11 of Schedule 5 of the ...

Firebuy Resists Heat Brought on by Procurement Injunction Challenge

In Lion Apparel Morgan J refused to grant an interim order suspending a procurement process, where the contracting authority had selected its preferred bidder and was about to conclude the contract. In determining the interim ...

High Court Damages Ruling in Hit-and-Run Case

In Byrne v Motor Insurers Bureau / Secretary of State for Transport, Flaux J has made the rare finding that the United Kingdom has committed a sufficiently serious breach of Community law to give rise to Francovich damages ...

Baxi Group Limited v HMRC [2006] EWHC 3353 (Ch)

Baxi Group Limited, decided by Lindsay J in the High Court on 21 December 2006, is the latest in a series of cases concerning the question when a composite transaction will constitute a 'single supply' for VAT ...

Completing Notifiable Mergers without Notifying the OFT: a Risky Business?

On 22 September 2006, the Competition Appeal Tribunal ("the CAT") handed down judgment in a challenge, brought under section 120 of the Enterprise Act 2002, by the parties to a completed merger, Stericycle International ...

Does the Freedom of Information Act Confer a Right to See Government Legal Advice?

In its decision of 4 April 2006 in Bellamy v Information Commissioner, which has just been published on its website, the Information Tribunal has addressed issues arising under ...