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2 October 2009 Competition law: Director ‘lack of awareness’ insufficient to avoid breach
CDO EW 1009.pdf
The Government’s current consultation on Competition Disqualification Orders (CDOs), which now form part of the UK’s competition laws courtesy of the Enterprise Act, is likely to result in a change in how the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) approaches individual cases of breach of those laws by companies in terms of director culpability, and mean directors will no longer be able to rely on a lack of awareness as a defence to any breach by their companies of those laws.