Author: 21st Century Competition

China: Complete bilingual antitrust law published for first time (Competition Policy International)

Oxford University Press has published the first-ever bilingual collection of all legal texts relating to Chinese competition law, according to reports.

Titled Competition Law in China: Laws, Regulations and Cases, the publication is the first comprehensive collection of its kind to be published in both Chinese and English. …read more

US: SCOTUS revives chances for antitrust LIBOR claims (Competition Policy International)

Bond investors who had LIBOR antitrust claims against banks dismissed last year have been given a new chance to fight their case, reports say, as the US Supreme Court agreed to hear their appeal.

Reports say the investors sued dozens of the world’s largest lenders for their alleged role in the …read more

Competition Policy and Scottish Independence (ESRC Centre for Competition Policy)

(by Andreas Stephan) On 18 September 2014 Scottish residents will be asked whether Scotland should be an independent country. A discussion was held at the recent Antitrust Enforcement Symposium (held by the University of Oxford’s Centre for Competition Law and Policy) regarding competition policy in an independent Scotland. This blog …read more

Avoiding the clinch: judicial respect for the rules inherent to sport (Competition Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers)

In a recent bout in the High Court, the specificity of sporting disputes once again came to the fore. In Bruce Baker v British Boxing Board of Control [2014] EWHC 2074 (QB), 25 June 2014, Sir David Eady was faced with the old chestnut of a request …read more