Caroline Thomas
Norton Rose Fulbright
Articles
UK: The Competition and Markets Authority launches operations - the new UK competition authority will have additional powers and handle cases differently than before
United Kingdom - August 11 2014 On 1 April 2014, the UK's new competition authority, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), officially took over the competition…
Banking sector build-up begets new laws on price signalling
Australia - December 17 2010 In the context of recent political debate about the state of competition in Australia's banking sector and in answer to a perceived gap in Australia's cartel laws, in the last month, we have seen the release of two separate but similar bills for proposed Federal legislation seeking to target "price signalling".
BAA update - successful appeal against Competition Commission break-up decision
United Kingdom - December 23 2009 On 21 December 2009, the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (the CAT) handed down its judgment upholding part of BAA’s appeal against the report prepared by the UK Competition Commission (the CC) in its market investigation into BAA airports.
New UK competition authority gets to work
United Kingdom - April 1 2014 Today, 1 April 2014, the UK's new competition authority, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), is officially taking over the…
Martin Coleman, Ian Giles, Joosje Hamilton, Peter Scott, Mark Simpson
A small step forward in large civil aircraft subsidies dispute
European Union, USA - October 27 2009 At the beginning of September, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) handed down an interim ruling on a complaint by the US government that support from European governments to Airbus constitutes illegal subsidies.
