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PRACTICE NOTES
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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
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PRACTICE NOTES
Climate change litigation
In recent decades, climate change has assumed increasing prominence. As science has advanced on the drivers of climate change and the present and expected effects of warming, impatience has mounted with the pace of law and policy‑making. This sits alongside ongoing international initiatives, notably the 2015 Paris Agreement, under which parties pledge to cut carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions so as to keep the rise in global average temperature well below 2.0 degrees above pre‑industrial levels, and to strive to constrain it further to 1.5 degrees. For further details, see Practice Note: The Paris Agreement 2015-snapshot. Consequently, litigants are turning more frequently to the courts, which are confronting climate arguments in diverse forms and fact patterns. Data released in July 2022 show that, in 2021, litigation continued to grow as a channel for climate action. Far from
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