In competition law cases, expert evidence will be of critical importance.\u00a0 Economists and experts in markets and particular markets will typically give expert evidence regarding the relevant economic issues.\u00a0 The Competition Act itself provides that the opinion of any witness who appears to the court to possess the appropriate qualification and experience may be admissible as regards any matter calling for expertise or special knowledge relevant to the proceeding.<\/p>\n
In particular, expert evidence may be given in relation to the effects which types of agreements, decisions, or concerted practices may have or which specific agreements, decisions or concerted practices have in competition and trade.\u00a0 Expert economic evidence may be given by way of explanation to the court of any relevant economic principles or the application of such principles or such other explanation would be of assistance to the judge or if applicable, to the jury.<\/p>\n\n
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Private Action The Competition Act 1991 (re-enacted in 2002) provides for a private right of action for breach of competition law,\u00a0 Private actions have not been commonly taken under the legislation to date. The Competition (Amendment) Act, 2012, provides for private enforcement for breach of both the domestic and EU prohibitions on anti-competitive behaviour. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20559,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions\/20559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}