Oxford Workshop Suggests Appetite for Cartel Criminalisation may be Waning

(by Andreas Stephan) The workshop, hosted by the Oxford Centre for Competition Law and Policy on 12 November, highlighted concerns about Britain’s experience of criminalising cartel conduct. Approaching the subject from a multidisciplinary perspective, leading academics and practitioners in the area of criminal cartel enforcement were particularly critical of the design of the UK offence, and of the two prosecutions brought to date by the Office of Fair Trading.