More than 35 law firms and chambers have joined forces to create a pro bono scheme for competition law advice. Stephen Tupper reports

While it may be small and its ability to markedly improve the human condition inherently limited, the legal profession’s competition law pro bono scheme is, in its own way, something of a phenomenon. Partly by chance, but mostly by design, this scheme now plugs a significant and growing gap in the UK’s system of market regulation.