by Kevin Coates | Sep 15, 2014 | Commentary Elsewhere
From Chillin’Competition: Groupement des Cartes Bancaires and the resilience of the case law on restrictions by object “The ECJ judgment in Groupement des Cartes Bancaires will be discussed at length in the coming months (maybe more so than MasterCard)....
by Kevin Coates | Sep 15, 2014 | Commentary Elsewhere
From Who’s Competing?: A Glimpse Inside the ‘Object Box’ “Case C-67/13 P Groupement des Cartes Bancaires (CB) ECLI:EU:C:2014:2204 It’s not often that the Court of Justice gets to address one of the core concepts that underlie the antitrust prohibitions,...
by Kevin Coates | Jul 23, 2014 | Commentary Elsewhere
From Competition Bulletin: The English law of causation and the passing-on defence “One of the big questions of English competition law is whether there is such a thing as a “passing-on defence” – – i.e. whether the damages suffered by a purchaser of a...
by Kevin Coates | Jul 23, 2014 | Commentary Elsewhere
From COMPETITION & REGULATORY LAW: New Publications: OECD: Ex-officio Cartel Investigations and Use of Screens to Detect Cartels “July 11, 2014 The OECD has posted the papers from its recent (October 2013) discussion of ex officio cartel investigations and...
by Kevin Coates | Jul 23, 2014 | Commentary Elsewhere
From COMPETITION & REGULATORY LAW: Competition & Licensing: Why Is a Cartel Not a Cartel When at the Hands of Regulators? “July 19, 2014 In Canada, the United States and many other open western and eastern economies we fortunately live in free markets....
