COMPETITION APPEAL TRIBUNAL - Key Persons
Alasdair Smith is an economist specialising in international trade. He has been a professor (now Emeritus) at the University of Sussex since 1981. He was a Deputy Chair of the Competition Commission then an Inquiry Chair at the Competition and Markets Authority, from 2012 to 2017. He has also been a member of the Scottish Fiscal Commission and of the Determinations Panel of the Pensions Regulator, and a senior adviser at the Payment Systems Regulator.
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- Member of the Registrar and Staff
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- 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 as well as an Ordinary Member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
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- Professor of Finance at Cass Business School
Professor Anthony Neuberger is currently Professor of Finance at Cass Business School at the City University of London where, since 2016, he has also been the Deputy Head of the Finance Faculty. He was previously at the University of Warwick as Professor of Finance and the London Business School as Associate Professor of Finance. He also has experience of working for the Department of Energy and the Cabinet Office, between 1973 and 1983.
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- 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. He was appointed as a non-executive director of Post Office Limited on 27 July 2021.
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- Member of the Registrar and Staff
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Member of the Registrar and Staff
- Registrar
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- Member of the Registrar and Staff
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- Member of the Registrar and Staff
- Assistant Referendaire
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- Professor of Economics at the University of St Andrews
David Ulph has been Professor of Economics at the University of St Andrews since 2006. He was Director of the Scottish Institute for Research in Economics from 2010 to 2017. Between 2001 and 2006, he was Chief Economist and Director of Analysis at Inland Revenue (subsequently HM Revenue & Customs). He is currently a Commissioner of the Scottish Fiscal Commission and was a member of the NHS Pay Review Body from 2015 to 2021.
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- 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. He is also a member of the UK's Regulatory Policy Committee.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 Missio, a Catholic aid & mission charity 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.
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- Caseworker
- Member of the Registrar and Staff
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- Chairman in Competition Law and Policy at Queen Mary University of London
Professor Eyad Maher Dabbah holds the Chair in Competition Law and Policy at Queen Mary University of London, where he is also the Director of the Institute for Competition and Consumers (ICC). Eyad has published widely and has advised on abusive dominance, cartels, vertical restraints and mergers in his capacity as special counsel and consultant to businesses, governments and international bodies. Eyad also has expertise in trade disputes and anti-dumping and has handled a number of high-profile matters in these areas.
Henrique Schneider is an economist who has served 12 years in the Swiss Competition Commission. He is also a professor of economics in Germany teaching and researching about the digital economy, the economics of telecommunications, as well as innovation.
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- 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.
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- Professor of Competition Law
Ioannis Kokkoris is a Professor of Competition Law and Economics and the Head of School at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University London. He previously worked at the Office of Fair Trading (and briefly at the European Commission and US Federal Trade Commission) and has been involved in numerous capacity building and law reform projects in various countries. He publishes on all areas of competition law and economics with a main focus on merger control (including on aspects of national security).
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- Professor of Global Competition Law and Public Policy at University College London
Ioannis Lianos is Professor of Global Competition Law and Public Policy at University College London, Faculty of Laws, where he has been teaching since 2005. He was President of the Hellenic Competition Commission from August 2019 to December 2023. Ioannis was elected a member of the Bureau of the OECD Competition Committee in 2021 and re-elected in 2022 and 2023.
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- Member of the Registrar and Staff
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- 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 current appointments are 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.
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- 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, and a trustee Director of the Institute of Export and International Trade.
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- 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.
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- Member of the Ordinary
- Ordinary Member
Keith Derbyshire was a government economist for 25 years, ending his career as the Chief Economist and Chief Analyst at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) in 2016. 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.
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- 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.
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- Member of the Registrar and Staff
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- Member of the Ordinary
- Ordinary Member
Michael Cutting was from 1988 to 2018 a competition lawyer at Linklaters LLP, including terms leading its London and global competition practices. He also served terms on the Board of Linklaters and as Co-chair of the Joint Working Party on Competition Law of the Bar and Law Society. His experience in private practice included UK and EU merger control, cartels, abuse of dominance and utility regulation. He is also a member of the London Magistrates Advisory Committee.
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- Caseworker
- Member of the Registrar and Staff
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- Professor of Law at the London School of Economics
Professor Pablo Ibáñez Colomo is Professor of Law at the London School of Economics, where he holds a Jean Monnet Chair in Competition and Regulation. He is also a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) and a Joint General Editor of the Journal of European Competition Law & Practice.
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- Member of the Ordinary
- Ordinary Member
Paul Dollman was Group Finance Director at John Menzies PLC, between 2002 and 2013. He is currently Audit Committee Chairman for Wilmington PLC, Verastar and Arqiva. He is also a non-executive director of Scottish Amicable, a member of the Audit Committee of the National Library of Scotland, honorary teaching fellow at the University of St Andrews Business School and Governor of the Edinburgh Academy of St Leonards School.
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- Member of the Ordinary
- Ordinary Member
- Partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer
Paul Lomas is a litigation practitioner who was a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer for 25 years. He led a number of their practice areas and specialised in EU and competition litigation, regulatory litigation and a wider range of general litigation. He was the author/editor of a text book on global investigations. He also holds an MBA from INSEAD. He is chair of REDRESS, was chair of Local Giving (and on-line web giving platform for local charities), and helped create the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law where he is a Bingham Fellow.
Pauline Weetman is Professor Emerita of Accounting at the University of Edinburgh. She is a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and has held previous professorial posts at the universities of Stirling, Heriot-Watt, Strathclyde and Glasgow. Her research interests in accounting cover corporate communications and international comparisons. She holds a Distinguished Academic award of the British Accounting and Finance Association and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She is currently a member of the Accounts Commission in Scotland, which is responsible for the audit of all Scottish local authorities, and is a member of the Finance Committee of the International Academy at the University of London. Previous public appointments have included the Pay Review Body for Nurses and Midwives and the Scottish Solicitors Discipline Tribunal. She has edited a leading academic journal and continues to provide editorial guidance for journal papers.
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- Member of the Ordinary
- Ordinary Member
- Solicitor in Scotland
Peter Anderson has been a solicitor in Scotland since 1975 and a Solicitor Advocate in Scotland since 1994. He was a partner in Simpson & Marwick, Solicitors, Scotland from 1978 and since the firm merged with Clyde & Co Solicitors, has been a partner there since 2015. He has over 40 years' experience in general insurance work, specialising in complex and high value personal injury claims, professional negligence, commercial litigation and aviation disputes. He has lengthy experience as Chairman and Managing Partner of a sizeable law firm.
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- Professor of Tort Law and Civil Justice at Queen Mary University of London
Professor Rachael Mulheron KC (Hon) is Professor of Tort Law and Civil Justice at Queen Mary University of London, where she has taught since 2004. Her areas of teaching, research and publication focus upon Tort Law; Medical Negligence Law; Class Actions jurisprudence; and Civil Procedure more generally. Rachael has advised and/or assisted government entities, law reform commissions, charities, rules-making bodies, NGOs, and others across a range of Civil Procedure and Tort Law issues since 2005.
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- Member of the Registrar and Staff
Robin Mason is Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International) at the University of Birmingham; Chair of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission; and Officer of the Order of the Rio Branco, for his contribution to academic co-operation between Brazil and the UK. He was previously Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean (Business School) at the University of Exeter, as well as Professor of Economics. His area of expertise is industrial organisation in general, and in particular the economics of regulation and competition. He has provided expert advice for a number of regulators, in the UK and internationally, on competition matters and spectrum auctions. He served for eight years on the Competition Commission and Competition and Markets Authority. He is currently a panel Member at the Financial Conduct Authority and the Payment Systems Regulator.
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- Member of the Registrar and Staff
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.
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- Member of the Registrar and Staff
- Head of Registry