COMPETITION BULLETIN

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January 2013

  • Back to school for the OFT?

    On 25 October 2012 the Office of Fair Trading announced that it had written to the head teachers of almost 30,000 State schools to draw attention to the high price of school uniforms. The high price is caused in part by  74% of schools requiring parents to purchase uniforms from a single, named retailer or… Continue reading

  • Anyone for another round? The Court of Appeal’s nuanced approach to the duty of “sincere cooperation”.

    The duty of “sincere cooperation” set out in Article 4(3) TEU requires Member States to take appropriate measures to “ensure fulfillment of the obligations arising out of the Treaties or resulting from the acts of the institutions of the Union” as well as to “refrain from any measure which could jeopardise the attainment of the… Continue reading

  • Competition round-up: January 2013

    As today is the first day of the new court term, I thought it would be a good moment for a round-up of last term’s competition cases – and, of course, the customary plug of our own blogs. If there was a theme to the Michaelmas term, it was the highs and lows of follow-on… Continue reading