Towards a Class Action Regime for Competition Litigation in the United Kingdom.: An Assessment of the Government’s Proposals

Christopher Brown, Scott Campbell, Dec 30, 2013

In April 2012, the U.K. Government launched a consultation on possible reform of the U.K. regime for private redress in respect of breaches of competition law. The consultation, which could be seen both as a belated response by the Government to the recommendations on private redress made to it by the Office of Fair Trading in 2007 and as an outflanking of the European Commission’s White Paper on Damages Actions for Breach of the EC antitru