Vivien Rose

Position(s):

Panel of Chairman, Competition Appeal Tribunal
London, England

Experience & Areas of Interest:

Vivien Rose was appointed to the panel of chairman of the Competition Appeal Tribunal in 2005. She has sat on cases across the range of the Tribunal’s different jurisdictions, in particular in appeals under the Communications Act 2003 concerning the mobile telephone sector. She has also chaired cases under the Competition Act 1998 such as the recent Article 82 appeal against OFGEM by National Grid.

Vivien was called to the Bar in 1984 and was a member of Monckton Chambers, London, for ten years specializing in domestic and EC competition law. She was appointed Standing Counsel to the Office of Fair Trading in 1992. In 1995 she left private practice and joined the Government Legal Service working for several years in HM Treasury advising on financial services regulation, at the Ministry of Defence advising on international humanitarian law and in the Legal Services Office of the House of Commons. She is co-editor (with Peter Roth QC) of the sixth edition of Bellamy & Child European Community Law of Competition (2008). She is a frequent participant at conferences and training events on topics relating to both substantive and procedural aspects of competition law.

Vivien is on the Editorial Board of Competiton Policy International.