Subjects:

Constitutional and Administrative Law

Contents:

1. Regulation and Deregulation: An Introduction

PART 1: REGULATION AND DEREGULATION: GENERAL ISSUES

2. Corrective Taxation as a Regulatory Instrument

3. The Private Enforcement of Competition Law

4. Challenging the Regulators: Strategies for Resisting Control

5. Using Contracts to Enforce Standards: The Case of Waiting Times in the NHS

6. Using Rules Effectively

7. Regulation and Judicial Review: Perspectives from UK and EC Law

8. Public Law and Private Finance: Placing the Private Finance Initiative in a Public Law Frame

PART 2: REGULATING UTILITIES

9. Transparency, Consistency and Predictability as Regulatory Objectives

10. Transparency, Confidentiality and Freedom of Information

11. Transparency: Of Business or Process?

12. Regulation of Price Discrimination and Predation by Dominant Firms: Lessons from the Ofgas Valueplus Decision

13. Can Competition Law Supplant Utilities Regulation?

14. The Impact of the Competition Bill

15. Regulating the Telecommunications Sector: Substituting Practical Cooperation for the Risks of Competition

16. Social Policy and Economic Regulators: Some Issues from the Reform of Utility Regulation

PART 3: REGULATING BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES

17. Efficient Regulation of the Securities Market

18. A Model of Financial Regulation

19. Electronic Commerce: American and International Proposals for Legal Structures

20. Trends in Financial Services Influences on the Approach to Regulation

21. Globalisation and Implications for cross-border Regulation

22. The Selective Incorporation of Foreign Legal Systems to Promote Nepal as an International Financial Services Centre

This volume is a revised version of papers presented at the Oxford Law Colloquium held at St John's College, Oxford, in March 1998. The Colloquium provided a meeting place for discussion between practitioners and academics interested in regulation. This text makes available to a wider audience the fruits of those discussions. Current themes in the debate about how best to regulate are explored, concentrating in particular on the regulation of utilities and of the banking and financial services industry.