Past Events

For 2009 the following activities are planned:

  • 25 February 2009: Competition and the Crunch, University of Glasgow
  • 11 June 2009: Sanctions in Competition Enforcement, Dundas & Wilson CS LLP, Edinburgh
  • 6 October 2009: Time to Take (Private) Action? Maclay Murray & Spens, Edinburgh
  • 27 November 2009: Competition Law and Sport, McGrigors, Glasgow

Past meetings of the Forum have been as follows:

Inaugural event – 13 October 2005

This was a drinks reception hosted at the offices of Shepherd+ Wedderburn in Edinburgh, with speakers including:

  • Kyla Brand, Scottish representative of the Office of Fair Trading
  • Vincent Smith, Head of Enforcement at the Office of Fair Trading
  • Brian McHenry, Director of the Legal Division of the Office of Fair Trading
  • Sir David Edward, former judge at the European Court of Justice
  • Mark Fuse, lecturer at Glasgow University

Winter meeting – 20 January 2006

The second meeting of the Forum was a breakfast seminar held at Strathclyde University in Glasgow. The speakers at this event were:

  • John Fingleton, the new Chief Executive Officer of the Office of Fair Trading and former chair of the Irish Competition Authority
  • Philip Collins, the new chairman of the OFT
  • Professor Barry Rodger, lecturer at Strathclyde University

Spring meeting- 5 April 2006

The latest SCLF meeting took place in Glasgow at the office of Maclay, Murray and Spens. The topic was private enforcement and speakers were:

  • Donncadh Woods, deputy head of antitrust policy at DG Competition
  • Neil Dryden of NERA economic consultants, a London-based specialist in Competition damages
  • Professor Barry Rodger of Strathclyde University

Summer meeting – 27 July 2006

The summer meeting of the SCLF was hosted by the Faculty of Advocates at the Mackenzie Building in Edinburgh. The topic was state aid and the speakers were:

  • Robert Hankin, head of the Regional Aid Unit at the European Commission
  • Sheena Brown, head of the State Aid Unit at the Scottish Executive
  • Lindsay Gardiner, who worked on OFT consultation on subsidies

Winter meeting – 30 November 2006

The first anniversary of the Forum was celebrated on St. Andrew’s Day at Shepherd and Wedderburn in Edinburgh. Jo Armstrong, Independent Economist, Heike Gading from the Scottish Executive, Abbe Brown from Edinburgh University and Vincent Smith from the OFT all said a few words about the Forum. The speakers were:

  • Sir Andrew Park, former High Court judge
  • Ian Forrester, Q.C, currently acting for Microsoft in litigation against the European Commission

At the drinks reception in Shepherd and Wedderburn’s Edinburgh office, Sir Andrew spoke about his time as a judge in the Crehan case, a seminal competition law case in the UK. Following the reception, the event moved on to the Scottish Malt Whisky Society for dinner, where Ian Forrester spoke about his current work for Microsoft.