Welcome to the latest edition of our UK Competition Law Newsletter – a monthly briefing on developments in UK antitrust law, enforcement, and practice.
Highlights include:
Payment Systems Regulator conducts dawn raids in its first case under the Competition Act 1998.
Competition Appeal Tribunal refers questions to the European Court of Justice on whether pharmaceutical pay-for-delay agreements restricted competition “by object” or “by effect”.
English High Court rules that the applicable law for follow-on damages actions is generally the law of the country where the restriction of competition occurs.