Spanish Abstract: La industria Eléctrica en Gran Bretaña ha presentado grandes cambios desde 1881 cuando Joseph Chamberlain promovió una ley prohibiendo toda libre competencia y confinándola a unos pocos contratos permitiendo el privilegio de algunos individuos. Desde este entonces el Estado...

In this paper, we will analyse further the issue of concurrence between competition and sector rules and the relation between parallel concepts within the two different legal frameworks. We will firstly examine Third Party Access in relation to essential facilities doctrine and refusal of access...

The debate on rail privatisation often seems to focus on very narrow issues. Those on both sides of the argument seem to be able to employ a mass of statistics to prove their point. Proponents of privatisation suggest, with some credibility, that all was reasonably well with the privatised...

The United Kingdom generally fights poverty directly - through the government's benefit system - and not through utilities. But British regulators have taken certain measures that help utility consumers (mostly, but not always, poor consumers). Other countries may be able to copy some of their...

In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a substantial mortgage lender. In fact, ten years...