6/24/2025 11:09:04 AM Interim injunctions in the Competition Appeal Tribunal - recent developments By Sophie Lawrance A perennial complaint about competition law is that it takes too long. Investigations and litigation can often run for many years before...
6/19/2025 2:50:14 PM Not playing nicely: abuse of dominance in the toy industry By Edwin Bond On 16 June the UK High Court handed down an entertaining judgment in a dispute between MGA Entertainment, one of the world’s largest toy...
3/24/2025 3:54:56 PM An Epic reload: Fortnite fires back at iOS in Brazil By Matthew Hunt Sze-Von Lam Epic Games is ‘dropping in’ to Brazil this July by bringing Fortnite to iOS through its very own app store. This comes after a recent...
3/12/2025 3:59:08 PM Spreadex-Sporting Index: CMA requests that its own merger assessment be quashed given material errors By Sze-Von Lam Francion Brooks In an unexpected turn, the CMA requested that the CAT quash the CMA’s own decision in the assessment of the Spreadex-Sporting Index...
3/3/2025 9:57:39 AM Offside! CJEU judgment that finds FIFA transfer rules anti-competitive set to have major implications for the football transfer market By Stephen Smith Sean-Paul Brankin Iva Gobac This material was first published by Thomas Reuters, trading as Sweet & Maxwell, 5 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5AQ, in...
11/11/2024 1:08:49 PM Competition law guidance on designing and implementing selective distribution schemes By Francion Brooks The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has provided guidance on the application of competition law to selective distribution arrangements...
10/30/2024 2:40:29 PM CJEU confirms that competitors can sue for breaches of the GDPR (using local competition rules) By Francion Brooks Antonia Kendrick The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) recently confirmed that a competitor, who is not a ‘data subject’ under the GDPR, has...
9/30/2024 9:48:16 AM Changes to the CPR taking effect on 1 October 2024: Power to compel ADR By Wes Walker Last year, the Court of Appeal in Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council [2023] EWCA Civ 141 decided that courts in England...
7/25/2024 3:42:22 PM DMCC Act: Private enforcement & competition litigation By Matthew Hunt Competition litigation is on the rise. Data from litigation analytics firm Solomonic (here) charts a substantial increase in the...
6/25/2024 9:28:11 AM Biotech Review of the Year: Six months on By Bristows LLP It's hard to believe that six months have passed since we released the 11th edition of our Biotech Review of the Year publication. Our...
9/21/2023 3:47:00 PM Will Microsoft’s call of duty to restructure Activision deal pay off? By Stephen Smith Victoria Yuan Matthew Hunt James Johnston +1 more... Show less Stephen Smith, Victoria Yuan, Matthew Hunt and James Johnston discuss the CMA's Phase 1 review of the Microsoft/Activision restructured...
4/3/2023 12:21:13 PM Apple's challenge of CMA's mobile browsers / cloud gaming investigation bears fruit By Matthew Hunt Back in January I summarised the procedural challenge Apple had made against the CMA's decision to carry out a market investigation into...