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Monckton Chambers - Brexit Blog
4d ago
The Tribunal today rejected an application by Sports Direct for an interim injunction requiring Newcastle United Football Club to supply it with replica kit for the 2024/5 season. Sports Direct argued that the club was dominant in the supply of Newcastle replica kit, and that refusing to supply that kit to Sports Direct was an ..read more
Monckton Chambers - Brexit Blog
4d ago
Professor Panos Koutrakos has written an Op-Ed for EU Law Live on the recent judgment of the European Court of Justice in Case C-516/22 Commission v UK. The ECJ held that, in handing down the Micula judgment ([2020] UKSC 5), the UK Supreme Court had ‘seriously compromised the EU legal order’: it had misinterpreted and ..read more
Monckton Chambers - Brexit Blog
1w ago
The Court of Appeal has handed down judgment today dismissing Cérélia’s appeal from the Competition Appeal Tribunal on all grounds. Both the Court of Appeal and the CAT upheld the decision of the CMA to require Cérélia to divest the Jus-Rol business that it had acquired in 2022. The judgment is of interest in two ..read more
Monckton Chambers - Brexit Blog
1w ago
The Technology and Construction Court (Freedman J) has today handed down a significant judgment in a procurement dispute, dismissing a challenge to the exclusion of a tender for non-compliance following an expedited trial. The claimant (Optima Health) had tendered for a call-off contract under a framework agreement to provide occupational health and employee assistance programme ..read more
Monckton Chambers - Brexit Blog
2w ago
Monckton Chambers is pleased to announce that Tim Ward KC and Philip Moser KC have been re-elected as joint Heads of Chambers for a further term of four years from April 2024. First appointed in 2016, read here ..read more
Monckton Chambers - Brexit Blog
3w ago
Members of Chambers are delighted to announce that Jen Coyne has joined Monckton Chambers as of today, 27 March 2024. Jen’s practice includes Procurement & Public law, Employment law (both commercial/business protection and statutory), and, increasingly, disputes involving an international element. As well as fitting into larger teams, she is experienced in leading litigation and ..read more
Monckton Chambers - Brexit Blog
1M ago
The members and staff of Monckton Chambers warmly congratulate Brendan McGurk, Philip Woolfe and Ewan West on ‘taking silk’ today. Members will be sworn-in along with other new KCs, at the official King’s Counsel Appointments Ceremony at Westminster. Brendan is a leading junior with a wealth of experience in Commercial, Public law and Regulatory disputes. He is ..read more
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1M ago
Monckton Chambers was delighted to invite you to this in person seminar, which sees the return of our popular “Regulating the Regulators” event. In the aftermath of the Microsoft/Activision merger appeal, Leading practitioners from Monckton’s public law team provided an update on the law and practice of judicial review claims against regulators – from how ..read more
Monckton Chambers - Brexit Blog
1M ago
Francis has achieved a resounding success in a hearing in the Supreme Court of Gibraltar, on behalf of his client, Oldstone Cargo and its insurers QBE Europe, the insurers of the OS 35, a vessel which sank off the Gibraltar coast in August 2022. The judgment releases £14,500,000 previously paid into Court by QBE Europe ..read more
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1M ago
The CAT has today published two judgments in Allergan PLC & Ors V The Competition and Markets Authority concerning a CMA Decision which found an unlawful agreement in relation to 10 mg hydrocortisone tablets. The first judgment (dated 29 September 2023 and originally handed down confidentially to the parties) addresses the substantive arguments on appeal ..read more