Judgment of the Tribunal giving its reasons for its decision on 14 December 2018 to grant the joint application of Sainsbury’s and Asda (the “Applicants”) and quash two decisions of the CMA in relation to the procedural timetable for the proposed merger between the Applicants. Those decisions related to (i) the time by which the Applicants had to respond to various working papers; and (ii) the time of the Applicants’ so-called “main party hearing”.
This is an unofficial summary prepared by the Registry of the Competition Appeal Tribunal.