The Horsfall Turner essay prize is a prestigious award presented to the best essay submission on a given topic every year.
It is designed to encourage young lawyers to engage with competition and European law.
The first prize is £1,000 plus a highly commended prize/s of £250. All winners were invited as guests to the Competition Section’s annual dinner, where their prizes were presented by the keynote speaker.
Winners of the Horsfall Turner essay competition 2018, Imogen Green (first prize), Jonas Levermann and Georgia Austin-Greenall (highly commended)
Find out more about the competition and read the winning 2019 essays
The Horsfall Turner essay prize list of previous winners |
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Year |
Question |
Winners |
Keynote speaker |
2019 |
Earlier this year, experts from the European Commission (EC) and a UK Digital Competition Expert Panel both made recommendations to adapt competition law and policy to the challenges of the digital era. Do you think the EC was right to propose a presumption of anti-competitive conduct, effectively shifting the burden of proof for pro-competitive benefits onto platform operators? |
First prize: Imogen Green, Slaughter and May Highly commended: Georgia Austin-Greenall, norton Rose Fulbright LLP Jonas Levermann, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP |
Christina Blacklaws, former Law Society president |
2018 |
The judgment of the Court of Justice in the Coty case changes nothing for the selective distribution model. Discuss. |
First prize: Helena Connors, Bristows LLP Highly commended: Patrick Todd, Herbert Smith Freehills |
Professor Richard Whish, president of the Competition Section and an Emeritus professor of law at King’s College London |
2017 |
What challenges does the digital economy present for the development of antitrust law? |
First prize: Anna Eckenroth, Herbert Smith Freehills Highly commended: Emile Abdul-Wahab, Ashurst LLP |
Professor Carl Baudenbacher, president of the EFTA Court |
2016 |
What changes, if any, do you think should be made to UK competition legislation, and to the way it is enforced, in the event of a UK exit from both the European Union and the EEA? |
First prize: Ms Katherine Zinser, Slaughter & May. Highly commended prizes: Mr Adam Bruell, Hogan Lovells International LLP Ms Chloe Kite, DLA Piper. |
Dr Andrea Coscelli, acting chief executive of the Competition and Markets Authority. |
2015 |
’Brexit: what would it mean for the UK competition law landscape? |
First prize: Ms Jasminder Chaytor, Berwin Leighton Paisner Highly commended: Mr Ali Sadek, Freshfields Ms Laura K. Elliott, Cooley (UK) LLP |
Judge Ian S. Forrester of European Union General Court |
2014 |
Object or effect: where do competition authorities need to draw the line?” |
First prize: Aoife Monaghan, Linklaters LLP Highly commended: John Kwan, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Daniel Schwarz, Clifford Chance |
Lord David Currie, chairman, Competition and Markets Authority |
2013 |
Will the UK Government’s proposed opt-out regime for collective damages actions facilitate redress for victims of competition law infringements to any significant extent? |
First prize: Daniel Carall-Green, Slaughter & May |
Philip Lowe, non executive director of the Competition and Markets Authority and director general for energy, European Commission (former director general for competition) |
2012 |
Is the proposed removal of the ‘dishonesty’ element of the cartel offence a step too far?’ |
1st prize - William Leslie, Linklaters |
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2011 |
Do you agree with the recent ECJ “Murphy” decision? (Cases C - 403/08 and C - 429/08)? |
1st prize - Elizabeth Hookham, Linklaters |
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2010 |
Are there circumstances in which the exchange of commercially sensitive information between competitors should of itself be considered to constitute an infringement by object under Article 101 TFEU? |
1st prize - Kimberley Hall |