Scottish Competition Law Forum

We have decided to change our dinner venue and will now have our Annual Dinner at the Brian Maule at the Chandon d’Or. Please find attached the link to the updated flyer

At the SCLF’s evening event on 11 June, Simon Williams of the Office of Fair Trading outlined the new Memorandum of Understanding between the OFT and the Crown Office, which provides greater certainty about the treatment of leniency applications in relation to cartels with a Scottish dimension. The SCLF will be holding an “SCLF lite” session on the subject of the respective functions of the Crown Office and the OFT, and the operation of the MoU, in Edinburgh on Thursday 12 November, at 17:00.

We have secured participation from Katie Stewart, Head of the National Casework Division of the Crown Office, and Stephen Blake, Director of Cartels and Criminal Enforcement at the OFT, for what promises to be a fascinating round table discussion. Dundas & Wilson CS LLP will kindly be providing us with a venue for this event.

If you are interested in participating in the event please email Brigitte Buice at brigitte.buice@shepwedd.co.uk who can provide more information. Please note that, due to the more intimate nature of our ‘lite’ events, places are limited for this event.

Further to our announcement of 13th October 2009, we have now confirmed that the costs for the above event to include dinner will be £55 per person.

The sole payment method is by cheque to the “Scottish Competition Law Forum” and should be sent to

Brigitte Buice (Ref: GHD/BIB)
Scottish Competition Law Forum
c/o Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP
1 Exchange Crescent
Conference Square
Edinburgh EH3 8UL

To pre-register please email brigitte.buice@shepwedd.co.uk and further details will be sent to you nearer the time.

Link to flyer: http://scotcomp.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/invitationv2.pdf

invitation1The Scottish Competition Law Forum is delighted to invite you to its fourth anniversary meeting in Glasgow on Monday 30 November 2009.

This year we will start at 2 pm at Maclay Murray and Spens’ Offices at 151 St Vincent Street in Glasgow with two exciting sessions on the topic of Sport, focusing in particular on the interaction between Competition Law and Sport.

The first session, titled “Making money from Sports: Media rights, Set top boxes and Championships”, will focus on legal aspects of the commercialisation of sport. The second session, “Six plus Five – Homegrown Talent vs The Free Market” will focus on the impact of free movement and competition principles on sport.

Speakers on these two topics will include:

· David Taylor – UEFA Vice President
· Gianluca Monte – Sports Unit of the European Commission
· Ian Forrester – White & Case LLP
· Simon Cliff – General Counsel Manchester City
· Abbe Brown – University of Edinburgh
· Alastair Bell – Partner, McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP

Former FTC Commissioner, William Kovacic will provide an insight into Transatlantic perspectives on this subject to conclude this part of the event.

After an afternoon full of interesting talks and lively discussion we will move to Blythwood Square Hotel for our Annual Dinner. Our after dinner speaker this year will be football commentator and former general manager of Celtic FC, Jock Brown.

Sponsorship opportunities for this event are still available, so if you are interested in supporting us please contact jonathan.ford@shepwedd.co.uk

The cost of the event to include Dinner per person is still to be confirmed. We will inform you about this and the method of payment as soon as possible.

To pre-register please email Brigitte.buice@shepwedd.co.uk and further details will be sent to you nearer the time.

Please find attached the flyer for this event:

http://scotcomp.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/invitation.pdf