I gather from the comments to my last post that there is still at least one reader interested in discussing the issues raised by AG Wahl in Groupement de Cartes Bancaires. I could not think of a better excuse to write yet another post about some ongoing developments where the …read more
May 30, 2014
The MacDonald-Laurier Institute has issued a new paper on government regulation (authored by Philip Cross) together with a companion Globe article (Regulation a ‘quaint relic’ with a firm grip on Canada’s economy) that caught my eye, which argues that the historic rationales for regulation in …read more
Covenants restricting use of land to particular commercial purposes are commonplace. Until recently, the potential for competition law to regulate them was limited, because “land agreements” were excluded from the reach of the Chapter I Prohibition under the Competition Act 1998. The exclusion has, however, been revoked …read more
May 29, 2014
A U.S. antitrust law colleague of mine (Steve Cernak) has written what I thought was a very interesting new practical competition/antitrust law publication entitled Antitrust Simulations (2014) (see: here).
What caught my eye about this new publication was its effort to bridge the gap between the …read more