Welcome to the second edition of our quarterly update on UK merger control. This quarter we ask, and try to answer, three key questions about developments in the period:
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Introduction
This update covers Q1 2017.
In it, I investigate three questions.
In the second half of this update, I round up Q1 developments in de minimis and exiting firm.
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To read the full article by Jack Williams please click here.
To read the full article by Jack Williams please click here.
Following the triggering of Art 50, Anneli Howard assesses the possible ramifications of the Supreme Court’s Miller ruling, other associated litigation and key next steps for the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.
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Meredith Pickford QC addressed the audience at the start of proceedings at CDR’s Spring Competition Litigation Symposium. An abridged summary of that address can be viewed here.
George Peretz QC has contributed to the UK Constitutional Law Association blog with a piece on agriculture, devolution and Brexit. To read the full post please click here.
A collection of essays which brings together contributions from judges, legal scholars and practitioners in order to provide a comprehensive assessment of the law and practice of exceptions from the principle of free movement, has been edited by Panos Koutrakos, Niamh Nic Shuibhne and Phil Syrpis. Click here for further information.
Published by Hart Publishing, the book can be purchased, in its various formats. from the publisher’s website.
”Brexit provides new context for the UK’s role in the Council of Bar and Law Societies of Europe – particularly its scrutiny of the European Court of Human Rights’ excessive caseload, as Piers Gardner explains.
Recognised as the voice of the European legal profession, the Council of Bar and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) represents, through its members, more than one million European lawyers.”
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Written by Jack Williams
Cambridge Law Journal (2016) 75(2), 186-189
Examines the Supreme Court judgment in R. (on the application of Lumsdon) v Legal Services Board on the proportionality of the Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates introduced for criminal advocates in England and Wales. Considers the impact of the court’s proportionality assessment in UK Administrative law, and analyses what the proportionality test requires in differing contexts.
Available on Westlaw.
