Competition and Monopolies in UK Law
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Reckitt and Colman Products Ltd (t/a Colmans of Norwich) v Borden Inc. and Others
... ... repugnant to the law's philosophy with respect to commercial monopolies to permit any trader to acquire a de jure monopoly in the container as ... Lawful competition will not be restricted by the common law ... 55 In a case such as the ... ...
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F. Hoffmann-LA Roche & Company A.G. and Others v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
... ... So the machinery of the Monopolies and Mergers Acts, 1948, and 1965, were set in motion. There was a ... ...
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Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation v Westinghouse Electric Corporation; Re Westinghouse Electric Corporation Uranium Contract Litigation M.D.L. Docket No. 235 (No. 1) and (No. 2)
... ... object or effect the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition within the common market �" For infringement of this Article the ... ...
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Esso Petroleum Company Ltd v Harper's Garage (Stourport) Ltd
... ... 781 at page 794. He said: "Monopolies and contracts in restraint of trade have this in common, that they both, ... that a person is not entitled to be protected against mere competition. I do not find that very helpful in a case like the present. I think it ... ...
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R v Monopolies and Mergers Commission and Another ex parte South Yorkshire Transport Ltd and Others
... ... , to the effect that the merger might be expected to operate against the public interest, and that the most effective means to restore competition would be to require the respondents to divest themselves of the assets and businesses acquired. On the same day the Secretary of State announced that ... ...
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Norris v Government of the United States of America
... ... device to compel the authority, under the fiction of a public competition, to accept tenders not representing the real market price of the ... Practices (Inquiry and Control) Act 1948 created the Monopolies Commission, which was required, upon a reference by the Secretary of ... ...
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R v Monopolies and Mergers Commission, ex parte Argyll Group Plc
... ... Happily the Secretary of State can remedy the deficiency for the future, if he thinks fit so to do, because section 24(1) of the Competition Act 1980, empowers him to make such modifications of Part II of the Third Schedule to the Act "as appear to him to be appropriate for improving the ... ...
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Dickson v Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
... ... In recent years to meet increasing competition the range of goods sold by pharmacists have extended to non-traditional ... ...
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British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd v Armstrong Patents Company Ltd
... ... public policy, fair dealing, the undesirability of permitting monopolies, the maintenance of legal rights, the prohibition of derogation from ... practices, in particular the Fair Trading Act 1973, the Competition" Act 1980, and the relevant provisions of the E.E.C. Treaty (Cmnd. 5179 \xE2" ... ...
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R v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, ex parte Lonrho Plc
... ... Secretary of State made on 25 November 1988 not to refer to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (referred to hereafter as the "M.M.C.") the merger ... State gave, as among his reasons for not so referring on non competition grounds, "the statements made and assurances given by the Al Fayed family ... ...
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