From Law360: Competition: UK Competition Court Says Reform Plans Miss The Mark “The U.K.’s competition court on Friday criticized the government’s plan to streamline the process for antitrust and regulatory appeals, warning that the changes sought to relax the standards of review at the same time the European Union is raising its own.”
From Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog: Legal problems of digital evidence “Posted by D. Daniel Sokol John Temple Lang, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford, Professor, Trinity College Dublin has written an article on the Legal problems of digital evidence. ABSTRACT: Article 7 of the Charter…”
From Law360: Competition: FTC’s Brill Questions Whether Section 5 Consensus Possible “The Federal Trade Commission’s Julie Brill on Tuesday expressed willingness to work with the Republican commissioners who have been pushing the agency to clarify its authority to police unfair competition under Section 5 of the FTC Act, but questioned whether it would be possible for all the commissioners to find common ground.”
From Law360: Competition: Translation Protocols In Cross-Border Antitrust Litigation “In civil antitrust litigations in U.S. courts, the increasing presence of foreign parties raises numerous issues relating to the translation and use of foreign-language documents. The current evidentiary rules are useful for cases in which parties use a few foreign-language documents, but those rules are poorly equipped for the realities of modern antitrust litigation, which often features thousands of emails and other electronics documents written in languages other than English, say Lee Berger and Sophie Sung of Paul Hastings LLP.”