COMPETITION APPEAL TRIBUNAL - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Ordinary
- Ordinary Member
Andrew is a former Senior Director at the UK Competition Commission, and a former Director of the Cooperation and Competition Panel for NHS-funded services. Prior to these roles, Andrew advised internationally on utilities sector reform after starting his career as an economist for the Australian Government. More recently, Andrew has been a partner, advising on competition matters, at Aldwych Partners. His experience includes merger inquiries, market investigations and conduct-related issues. Andrew is currently Chair of the Independent Panel on Procurement and Patient Choice for the NHS and a member of Ofgem's Enforcement Decision Panel as well as an Ordinary Member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Ordinary
- Ordinary Member
Antony studied science and law at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, followed by postgraduate studies in the UK. He entered private practice in EU, competition and regulatory law with a focus on litigation and agency enforcement. He then pursued studies in physics, nanotechnology and renewable energy.
Ben Tidswell was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand in 1988 and joined City firm Ashurst in 1993, becoming admitted to the roll of solicitors in England & Wales in 1994 and a solicitor advocate in 1999. A partner in the London Disputes practice at Ashurst since 2000, he has worked on a wide range of commercial litigation and regulatory matters, including several cases before the Tribunal over a period of almost 20 years. He was the Global Chairman of Ashurst from 2013 to 2021.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Ordinary
- Solicitor
- Ordinary Member
Carole Begent qualified as a solicitor in 1989. Following private practice, where she specialised in commercial and company law, she was a public lawyer specialising in competition and regulatory law, holding policy and legal advisory positions at OFWAT, ORR, Department of Transport, the Competition Commission, the Competition and Markets Authority and the Payments System Regulator. Carole is currently a member of the Independent Panel on Procurement and Patient Choice for the NHS.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Ordinary
- Ordinary Member
Charles Bankes was a partner at Simmons & Simmons LLP from 1998 to 2022. He advised on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious competition law and utility regulation. In 2000 to 2001 he was seconded to Ofgem as General Counsel. He is the joint author of a textbook on UK merger control.
Charles Morrison was admitted to the roll of solicitors in England and Wales in 1987. In 1994, he was granted rights as a Higher Court Advocate and in 2002 was called to the Bar of Tanzania. In 2017, he was appointed a Recorder of the Crown Court, and in 2019 appointed a Deputy High Court Judge deployed to the Queens Bench Division (Civil List and Commercial Court) and the Chancery Division. He is an energy and project finance partner in the London office of Hunton Andrews Kurth.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Ordinary
- Economist
- Ordinary Member
Derek Ridyard is an economist with expertise in the economics of competition, regulation and intellectual property. He holds an MSc in economics from the London School of Economics. He spent 30 years as an economist working in private practice. Derek was one of the co-founders of economic consulting firm RBB Economics, prior to which he worked for 15 years establishing and heading up the European competition practice at NERA, and for five years in the UK Government Economic Service.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Ordinary
- Economist
- Ordinary Member
Maria Maher is an economist with over thirty years' experience in competition and regulatory matters. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. Between 2006 and 2023, Maria worked in private practice and held senior positions with several economic consultancies. Prior to her career in economic consultancy, she was a Senior Economist with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. She started her career as an academic and has held positions at the University of Cambridge, where she was also a Fellow of Christ's College, and at Birkbeck College.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Ordinary
- Ordinary Member
- Senior Advisor at Charles River Associates
William Bishop was formerly a Senior Advisor at Charles River Associates and is Professor of Economics of Competition Law at the College of Europe. His parliamentary and governmental experience includes being an Adviser to the UK Government on drafting the UK Competition Act and Adviser to the European Commission on its Market Definition Notice and on Remedies in Merger Control. His professional experience includes many cases concerning European and UK merger control and UK monopoly investigations.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Ordinary
- Ordinary Member
Eamonn Doran spent 30 years working at Linklaters LLP, the international law firm, latterly as a partner and consultant. Specialising in competition law and EU law, he had particular experience of banking and financial services inquiries and is a former head of the London competition group. He sits as a JP in the Family Court, is a trustee of the UK region of the Missionary Society of St Paul of Nigeria, and is a founding trustee of the Grow Edo Support Group, developing projects to combat human trafficking from Nigeria. He chairs the Remuneration Committee of Magdalen College, Oxford.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Ordinary
- Ordinary Member
Greg practised as a solicitor specialising in merger control and EU and UK behavioural competition law from 1995 to 2024. He led the UK competition practice of Jones Day from 2001 to 2007 and was a partner with Clifford Chance from 2007 to 2024, latterly as head of the UK competition team. Greg is a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Competition Policy, Director of the South East London Catholic Academy Trust and past trustee of the NZUK Link Foundation.
Job Titles:
- Accountant
- Member of the Ordinary
- Ordinary Member
Hugh is an accountant with 20 years' experience in regulatory and competition finance, particularly in the application of financial accounting data to answer economic questions relating to costing, pricing and profitability. He currently works as an independent consultant, and as a Non-Executive Board Member of the Single Source Regulations Office.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Ordinary
- Ordinary Member
Jane Burgess was with the John Lewis Partnership since 1993 first starting as staff and training manager and her last position was as Partners' Counsellor on the board, which she relinquished in October 2017. Her previous public appointments were as a Lay Member on the House of Commons Committee on Standards, a Commissioner for the Civil Service Commission and a member of the Business Advisory Board at Surrey Business School.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Ordinary
- Ordinary Member
John Alty has held a number of senior civil service roles dealing with competition, intellectual property, business sectors and trade, culminating in setting up the UK's trade policy capability after the EU referendum as Director General for Trade Policy. He left the civil service in 2021 and is now a visiting professor in practice at the London School of Economics, an adviser on trade to Pagefield Communications, a non executive Director of the Trade Remedies Authority and a trustee Director of the Institute of Export and International Trade.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Ordinary
- Economist
- Ordinary Member
John Davies is an economist with 30 years' experience in the economics of competition and regulation. He has worked as a consultant in the private sector, most recently at Compass Lexecon, and in the public sector he has been Chief Economist at the UK Competition Commission, Chief Executive of the Competition Commission of Mauritius and Head of Competition Policy at the OECD.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Ordinary
- Ordinary Member
After a career in NHS finance, Keith Derbyshire joined the Government Economic Service in 1992, and worked as a Senior Economic Adviser for twenty-five years, ending his career as the Chief Economist and Chief Analyst at the Department of Health and Social Care. At DHSC he specialised in resource allocation, policy appraisal and the development of incentives and regulations to overcome market failure in health care delivery. In 2017 he was made honorary professor of health economics at the Centre of Health Economics at the University of York, where he acts as an independent advisor to their Policy Research Unit.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Ordinary
- Solicitor
- Ordinary Member
Lesley Farrell qualified as a solicitor in 1991 and has over 20 years' experience in competition law, covering both contentious and non-contentious areas of practice. She was a partner in the EU and Competition teams of S J Berwin LLP between 2002 and 2012, and Eversheds Sutherland LLP, between 2013 and 2022.
The Honourable Lord Richardson is a Senator of the College of Justice and a Judge of the Outer House of the Court of Session in Scotland. Lord Richardson has been nominated by the Lord President pursuant to section 12(2)(ab) of the Enterprise Act 2002 (as amended by section 82 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015) to sit as a Chairman of the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
The Honourable Lord Young is a Senator of the College of Justice and a Judge of the Outer House of the Court of Session in Scotland. Lord Young has been nominated by the Lord President pursuant to section 12(2)(ab) of the Enterprise Act 2002 (as amended by section 82 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015) to sit as a Chairman of the Competition Appeal Tribunal.