This work provides a detailed examination of how individuals or companies can enforce their rights under competition law against other private parties in the EU, UK and USA. Specific examples of US case law and the judicial application of damage rules are examined in detail so as to draw practical conclusions for antitrust legislation in Europe.

This book provides the first detailed examination of how private individuals and companies can enforce their rights under competition law against other private parties in the EU and UK. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal basis for private antitrust enforcement both under EC and the new UK law, and of the available procedures and remedies. The book then goes on to systematically survey all of the key issues of law and practice that arise in private antitrust litigation in the USA, such as locus standi, antitrust injury, methods of proof of damage, types of damage for which compensation is recoverable, and the principles of antitrust damage calculation. In each case, the author draws upon his experience of such litigation as a practitioner in the USA to set out detailed practical conclusions as to how the same issues should be addressed in the EU and UK.

Preface by John Temple Lang
Table of Cases
Table of Treaties and Legislation
Introduction
1. Introduction to comparative antitrust systems
2. Antitrust enforcement in the US
3. The EC System: The Treaty of Rome and Regulation 17
4. The UK System: From administration to prohibition
5. Foundations of private enforcement in the Community
6. Remedy principles and the competition rules
7. Aspects of private antitrust enforcement
8. Enforcement pluralism in the Community system
9. The Legal basis of private actions in the UK
10. Community antitrust claims as a breach of statutory duty
11. UK antitrust claims as a breach of statutory duty
12. The Community (antitrust) remedy solution
13. Prudential limitations on private actions
14. Limits on permissible private plaintiffs in US law
15. Special issues of standing and antitrust injury
16. Limits on permissible private plaintiffs under EC law
17. Antitrust damage principles in US law
18. How damages are calculated in particular cases
19. Damage principles in Community antitrust cases
20. Conclusions: The labours of Sisyphus
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