Product Description

"(PUBLICATION FIRST MARKED AS OUT OF PRINT 09/10/03)Whish: Competition Law introduces the reader to the competition law of the EC and the UK, describing the constituent parts of the law, analysing the way in which the law affects particular commercial phenomena, and explaining the economic context in which competition law operates.This new edition has been revised in line with the enormous changes in this complex field of law, both in the EC and the UK. Most notable amongst the many developments in the EC is Regulation 2790/99 and the accompanying Guidelines on Vertical Restraints which have dramatically changed the application of Article 81 of the EC Treaty to vertical agreements. Meanwhile changes in the UK have been even more fundamental, with the adoption of the Competition Act 1998 and the prospect of further changes to domestic competition law in the pipeline.Covering all the important developments in this area in a way which is comprehensive yet accessible, Whish: Competition Law will prove invaluable both to law and economic students as well as to practitioners and officials involved in competition law matters."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1144920 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 973 pages

About the Author
Richard Whish, Professor of Law at King's College, London

Customer Reviews

Once again, a very good book
This new edition definitely keeps up to expectations. It's a very good book indeed, and the practical approach of the previous editions has been preserved: it's full of tables, explanatory charts, memorandum for turnover thresholds and so on. The good point of hte book is the balance between the scope of the subject (actually the whole subject is covered, from mergers to patents and antitrusts, to sector regulations) and the depth of the research. Even in a limited number of pages Whish managed to stuff in disparate and apparently minor issues - providing a guidnace for further research by way of footnotes and references to cases. This is very helpful for a practitioner who can get a general idea of the subject and then decide to investigate it more in depth. All this, with a very clear and witty style - actually it never gets boring (well, stil it's a law book, but I guess land law handbooks can be worse).
The weak point is that the indexes sometimes are quite unhelpful and misguiding, and that sometimes the facts of the most important cases are not described very well.
But apart from that, it's a very good deal: if you (or your law firm...) haven't got the money to buy Ritter or Faull&Nikpay, and if you think that Bellamy&Child is fairly out of date, buy this book, you won't regret.

HORRIBLE
as a student this book is absolutely horrible. difficult to read, repeats itself all the time, and the cases are just randomly listed out and described with no organisation and no principle to be drawn from them.