Handbook of Case Law: The Competition's Tribunal Guide to Select Cases Decided from 1999 - 2001

This version contains some exciting new topics as well as updates of existing topics. New topics include cases dealing with the Covid -19 pandemic complaints decided by the Tribunal in accordance with the mandate given to it by the newly amended section 8(1)(a) and 8(3) and/or the Consumer Protection Regulations promulgated under the State of National Disaster, 2 the question of the Tribunal’s jurisdiction over foreign entities, the powers of the Tribunal to vary consent orders, the exercise of the Tribunal’s inquisitorial powers, access to confidential information and the approach of the Tribunal to the question of indivisible transactions. Some topics such as the new Public Interest are actually old topics that have been separated out of the merger evaluation section due to the growth in the number of cases and the expanded public interest grounds introduced by the 2019 amendments. The updated and new topics in this version of the handbook are all simply marked by an asterisk (*) in the heading which denotes that either it has been updated with new case law or that it is a new topic. This version includes the latest decided and published (non-confidential) cases of the Competition Tribunal and Competition Appeal Court up to and including 31 March 2021.