The Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) recently issued its revised “Statement on coronavirus (COVID-19), consumer contracts, cancellation and refunds“, which was first made available on 30 April 2020. The updated statement now focuses on consumers’ rights where lockdown rules do not prevent a trader from rendering a service but change how it can be rendered.…
TuneIn is a radio service which provides links to radio stations all over the world. In 2017, the service was sued in the English High Court by Sony Music UK and Warner Music UK, on the basis that linking to radio stations in other jurisdictions, which were not licensed to play music in the region,…
Preiskel & Co’s Dispute Resolution team, led by Robert Dougans, has successfully resisted the Kazakhstan Kagazy Claimants’ attempts to summarily obtain final charging orders against two London properties worth c. £38 million. In a 43-page judgment Mr. Justice Henshaw held that a court order had not been breached, and if it had he would have…
In 2019, the German competition authority, the Bundeskartellamt, found that Facebook had broken competition law by abusing its dominant position in relation to the terms and conditions imposed on consumers and data privacy. Facebook asserted compliance with the GDPR as a defence, but this did not stand scrutiny. The Bundeskartellamt ordered Facebook to comply with…
The Digital Policy Alliance (“DPA”) has published its response to the CMA’s Call for Inputs on proposals for a Digital Markets Unit, issued alongside the CMA’s Final Report on its market study into Online Platforms and Digital Advertising. The DPA response can be read here. Tim Cowen, Chair, Antitrust Practice, is co-chair of the DPA’s…
We are delighted to announce that Preiskel & Co Senior Partner, Daniel Preiskel, will be speaking at the Carrier Community MVNO Conference being held on Berlin on 25 and 26 August 2020. Daniel will be speaking on a panel discussing “Building Blocks of Mobile Wholesale.” For more information on the conference, please click here. Please…
Preiskel & Co’s Dispute Resolution team has successfully represented a client in resisting a jurisdiction challenge in a London Metal Exchange arbitration. The dispute related to the sale of zinc ingots from a Belgium company to a Saudi Arabian counter-party. The parties attended a remote hearing in April 2020 (during the COVID-19 ‘lockdown’ in the…
We are delighted to announce that Tim Cowen, Chair Antitrust Practice, has had a book review published in the latest issue of the Competition Law Journal.
Tim reviews Beata Mäihäniemi’s Competition Law and Big Data.
Please contact Tim with questions.
In a recently issued judgment, the EU Court of Justice (“EUCJ”) has confirmed the obligation imposed on traders selling goods or services online to consumers under the ADR Directive (2013/11/EU) (the “ADR Directive”) that requires sellers (which can include Communications Providers) to set out in their website terms and conditions, details of the approved Alternative…
After 15 months of investigation following the imposition of an Initial Enforcement Order in June 2019, Amazon’s acquisition of 16% of the RooFoods business, better known by its trading name Deliveroo, has been cleared by the CMA. Amazon announced that it would be leading a $575 million Series G investment in the food delivery business…
