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The International Handbook on Private Enforcement of Competition Law

England & Wales

 

Introduction


In the past two to three years in England and Wales significant strides have been taken towards the formation of a nascent claimant’s bar. This progress is attributable to a number of important common law, regulatory, ethical and commercial developments which have made it increasingly practical for both: (a) claimants (individual consumers and businesses) to seek compensation for the losses they have sustained as a result of anti- competitive practices; and (b) lawyers seeking to specialize in holding participants in anti- competitive practices to account to practice. Within this context, a number of the major developments in England and Wales are set out below...

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Practice Areas: Antitrust / Competition Litigation

 

Supporting Documents

» Foer and Cuneo Chapter 16 - England and Wales (PDF)