Strengthening competition law enforcement in Ireland: The Competition (Amendment) Act 2012

Whelan, Peter (2013) Strengthening competition law enforcement in Ireland: The Competition (Amendment) Act 2012. Journal of European Competition Law and Practice, 4 (2). pp. 175-181. ISSN 2041-7772

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Abstract

Ireland has increased the maximum custodial sentence that can be imposed on a convicted cartelist from 5 to 10 years, has increased the maximum fines for competition offences and has introduced Director Disqualification Orders for non-indictable competition offences. The increase in the maximum custodial sentence in particular has some potential to perform a signalling function to trial judges in Ireland regarding the seriousness of cartel activity and the need for the imposition of custodial sentences on cartelists. Recent experience in Ireland demonstrates that juries may be prepared to convict alleged individual cartelists, even when their doing so may result in the imposition of a custodial sentence. By no longer requiring plaintiffs in follow-on private actions to prove a breach of competition law, Irish law has also facilitated less burdensome private competition law enforcement.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law
Depositing User:	Julie Frith
Date Deposited:	19 Feb 2013 13:53
Last Modified:	04 Mar 2024 16:36
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/41372
DOI:	10.1093/jeclap/lps069

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