One of the newly-elected chairmen for the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal said that competition law must “get real, get simple, get credible” in a recent statement following the announcement of his appointment. Peter Freeman, who is a former Competition Commission chairman, was announced as one of the incoming chairmen of the CAT and as a follow-up gave an interview in which he stressed the importance of the public seeing the system working, calling the 10 years of the CAT’s expertise “priceless.”
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