Emma Mockford

Emma is a barrister practising at Brick Court Chambers in London. Her practice encompasses all aspects of competition and regulatory law, including statutory appeals, follow-on actions, State aid work and FRAND / IP disputes, as well as substantive EU law. She is also frequently instructed in public law cases and heavy weight commercial disputes. Before being called to the Bar in 2016, Emma practised for a number of years as a solicitor at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Qualified Year

  • 2013

Membership

  • Bar European Group
  • Administrative Law Bar Association
  • Commercial Bar Association
  • JUSTICE
  • Liberty

Education

  • BA in Jurisprudence (Law) with First Class Honours (University of Oxford) (2010)
  • MA in EU Competition Law (King's College London) (2016)

1 Contributions by Emma Mockford

Competition Act 1998 appeals before the Competition Appeal Tribunal: procedural guide to commencing, defending, intervening, time limits, evidence, confidentiality, case management and further appeals
PRACTICE NOTES
Competition Act 1998 appeals before the Competition Appeal Tribunal: procedural guide to commencing, defending, intervening, time limits, evidence, confidentiality, case management and further appeals
NOTE— On 25 April 2023, the Government unveiled the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (DMCC Bill), proposing major updates to UK competition law spanning merger control, antitrust, market studies/investigations and digital markets. The DMCC Bill will take effect once it has cleared Parliament. This Practice Note will be amended to capture the pertinent revisions when the DMCC Bill becomes law. For the principal changes introduced by the DMCC Bill, see further, The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024: key provisions from a competition and digital markets perspective. This Practice Note outlines the main procedural steps for bringing or resisting an appeal under section 46 or 47 of the Competition Act 1998 before the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT or the Tribunal). Sections 46 and 47 of the Competition Act 1998 allow appeals to be made against decisions of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), as well as other sectoral regulators exercising concurrent competition law powers (see UK sector regulation and the concurrency regime—Concurrent enforcement of competition law). Section 46 sets out which categories of CMA decisions can be appealed to the CAT by the addressees of that decision. Decisions appealable under section 46 include any decision of the CMA...
Competition
Expert page AD
If you expected to see yourself on this page, click here.