Tag: law
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“Like ships in the night” – the Court of Appeal’s Hydrocortisone judgment vindicates CMA and brings welcome order to a procedure that had been spinning out of control
The CMA’s pharma cases have generated a lot of work for the UK’s antitrust lawyers and economists, with a good proportion of practitioners having worked on at least one of Paroxetine, Phenytoin, Liothyronine or Hydrocortisone over the past few years. Dawn raids and large fines in these pharma cases highlighted the emergence of a more…
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The evolving framework for litigation funding: PACCAR, the DMCC Bill, the CAT…and Mr Bates!
Competition law infringements often cause financial harm to large groups of consumers or businesses, who would individually be unwilling or unable to pay to claim compensation for that harm. This is why such groups often make use of third-party funding, known as litigation funding, which is offered by specialised investment funds who pay for the…