Overview

The Government recently stated that it wants to overhaul the UK’s competition regime by creating a new regime focused on growth. However, measuring the effectiveness of the current regime and deciding where reform is needed may prove to be a difficult task.

Writing exclusively for Legal Week, Cleary’s Nicholas Levy and Paul Gilbertit argue that is not necessarily in the best interests of consumers, or the economy, to dedicate a greater proportion of finite resources to enforcement action when better business education might prevent infringements from occurring in the first place.

In doing so, the pair offer their opinion on what can be done to improve efficiency and quality of output and on what the Government should leave well alone.

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