Tag Archives: Criminalisation

The imprisonment of 44-year-old mother of three Carla Foster for inducing an abortion after the legal limit has exposed the UK’s archaic abortion legislation and highlighted the increasingly aggressive use of state power against society’s most vulnerable. Sentenced to 28 months by Justice Edward Pepperall, Foster will serve half of …

Introduction The past 12 months have seen some striking competition decisions come from the UK competition agencies and courts. First, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had a particularly high intervention rate against mergers. Second, the courts considered a number of significant abuse of dominance pricing cases. In particular, the …