“A law reform body has proposed changes to the law that would make it easier for businesses seeking to protect their trade marks and design rights to make threats of legal action against alleged infringers of their rights without fear that those threats could be the subject of court action.”
OUT-LAW.com, 22nd April 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“In a consultation opening today, the Law Commission seeks views on reform of the law relating to groundless threats of litigation over patents, trade marks and design rights.”
Law Commission, 17th April 2013
Source: www.lawcommission.justice.gov.uk
“A UK technology firm that provides internet maps has initiated legal action against Google in the High Court in which it has claimed that it has been the victim of anti-competitive practices engaged in by the internet giant.”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th April 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“A guide to the Ministry of Justice’s consultation on criminal legal aid reform (Transforming Legal Aid: Delivering a more credible and efficient system) and price competitive tendering published earlier this week.”
LegalVoice, 11th April 2013
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
“The Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, has responded to today’s Ministry of Justice (‘MoJ’) announcement on legal aid.”
The Bar Council, 9th April
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“Yesterday’s Criminal Bar Association message contains some unhelpful inaccuracies which the Bar Standards Board needs to correct.”
Bar Standards Board, 9th April 2013
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
“Defendants will lose the right to choose their lawyer and instead be allocated a representative, under government plans to introduce price-competitive tendering (PCT) for criminal defence services.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 9th April 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The chief executive of the new Legal Aid Agency (LAA) has promised practitioners that they will experience ‘minimal’ impact from the change in machinery.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 3rd April 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Competition Appeal Tribunal today delivered that rarest of beasts: a judgment awarding damages in a follow-on claim. After its decade-long fight, Albion Water has been awarded around £2 million for Dŵr Cymru’s abuse of dominant position in relation to the price it was prepared to charge Albion for the use of its water pipes.”
Competition Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 28th March 2013
Source: www.competitionbulletin.com
ITV Broadcasting Ltd and others v TVCatchup Ltd (Case C-607/11); [2013] WLR (D) 92
“The concept of ‘communication to the public’, within the meaning of article 3(1) of Parliament and Council Directive 2001/29/EC covered a re-transmission of the works included in a terrestrial television broadcast where the re-transmission was made by an organisation other than the original broadcaster, by means of an Internet stream made available to subscribers of that other organisation who could receive that re-transmission by logging on to its server, even though those subscribers were within the area of reception of that terrestrial television broadcast and could lawfully receive the broadcast on a television receiver. It was irrelevant that a re-transmission was funded by advertising and was therefore of a profit-making nature and was by an organisation which was acting in direct competition with the original broadcaster.”
WLR Daily, 7th March 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“In his recent blog ‘Down the rabbit hole,’ Tom Richards described the ‘quasi judicial review within an appeal’ contained in s.193(7) Communications Act 2003 as something of a Wonderland.”
Competition Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 11th March 2013
Source: www.competitionbulletin.com
“The Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, has today responded to the Ministry of Justice’s announcement that its consultation and implementation of a new scheme for criminal legal aid will be brought forward, with price competition put forward as one key proposal.”
The Bar Council, 5th March 2013
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“The Government recently confirmed its intention to introduce ‘collective actions’ in the UK for competition law. Not only should this enable large numbers of consumers and small businesses to obtain redress against anti-competitive behaviour, but an important by-product is that leftover damages could benefit access to justice more generally.”
Legal Voice, 1st March 2013
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
“Britain’s four biggest accountancy firms have been heavily criticised by the Competition Commission.”
BBC News, 22nd February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Probation officers are warning that the public will be at greater risk if the government presses ahead with plans to privatise the supervision of offenders.”
The Guardian, 17th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Stand alone, follow on and hybrid damages claims arising out of multijurisdictional cartels are generating some of the most novel and interesting current problems in conflicts of laws, both in relation to issues of jurisdiction and applicable law. On the jurisdictional side conventional wisdom has it that there are three main routes by which Claimants can seize English jurisdiction.”
Competition Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 14th February 2013
Source: www.competitionbulletin.com
“When assessing whether an agreement between several undertakings had the object of restricting competition within the meaning of article 101FEU of the FEU treaty, the fact that an institution, adversely affected by the agreement, had allegedly been operating illegally on the relevant market was of no relevance to that assessment.”
WLR Daily, 7th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“This lecture focuses on the question of whether justice in relation to markets is entirely to be seen as being procedural – that justice is a matter of securing the conditions of non-coercive economic exchange between free individuals. Or is justice also about social justice- that is to say about the proper distribution of resources and a concern about the outcomes of markets? If justice is about social as well as procedural justice how can we arrive at criteria for distributive justice if all moral values are seen as subjective? Should we not rather see market outcomes, in the words of the economist Fred Hirsch as being ‘in principle unprincipled’?”
Lecture by Professor the Lord Plant of Highfield
Gresham College, 29th January 2013
Source: www.gresham.ac.uk
“The big news from last week’s UK announcement on reforming private competition enforcement is that the government plans to introduce opt-out class actions for competition claims.”
Competition Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 4th February 2013
Source: www.competitionbulletin.com
“More competition is needed among providers of current accounts, the Office of Fair Trading said on Friday after finding the major banks had increased their dominance in the £9bn market. The OFT said ‘significant further’ changes were required as it warned that the market was not ‘working well for consumers or the wider economy’but decided against a full referral to the Competition Commission. It will conduct another review in 2015.”
The Guardian, 25th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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