Recently, the Government of India decided to merge the Competition Appellate Tribunal (COMPAT) with the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT). In the recent past, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has often found itself at the receiving end of the COMPAT, in more ways than one. While the debate is still going on as…
Automobiles Case Hopefully, you remember the case ofthe Shamsher Kataria automobiles case. To quickly recap, it was alleged in this case that the car manufacturers were indulging in anti competitive practices regarding the supply of spare parts and technological know how that are required for routine maintenance and repairing of the cars that they sold.…
Laws are known to be replete with loopholes. The Exploitation of loopholes is something everyone likes to profess outrage about, and yet I would maintain that is central to legal practice. Practical constraints supposedly make laws avoidably over or underinclusive. This article offers a different perspective to a constitution. An aspect of the battle over…
Establishment of CCI The establishment of CCI is closely related to the evolution of competition law in India. As we know about how the Competition Act, 2002, replaces the previously existing Monopiles and Restrictive Trade Practices (MRTP) Act of 1969. It is with the advent of the Competition Act, 2002, that the Competition Commission of…
Combination: Meaning and Scope Another aspect of business that can often have adverse impact on competition in the market is combination. You would have often heard of these incidents, though you may not have necessarily identified them as combinations. In a combination, in simple terms, two or more businesses or enterprises which were previously competitors…
Section 2 clause C of the competition act, 2000 defines a cartel as an association of producer, seller, distributor trader or service provider who buys agreement among themselves to limit control or attempt to control the production distribution and sale of price or trade-in goods or provision of service. It can be stated that the…
Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour, experience and mental processes. Behaviour includes all of our outward or overt actions and reactions, such as talking, facial expressions and movement. Mental processes refer to all the internal, covert actions of our minds, such as thinking, feeling and remembering. To study behaviour and mental processes in both…
Spiritual people look very similar to the common people and hence difficult to be identified. They are usually not dressed in white, blue or ochre dress. They don’t necessarily keep beard or shave their heads. They don’t live in forest, caves or in Himalayas. They live around you but you fail to identify them. You…
Personally, I love school uniforms. There are two ways of looking at why there should be school uniforms. Equality. School uniforms means that everyone has to look the same, and that there can be no disparity between the clothing choices of students, preventing more bullying. This is actually why my school doesn’t even have full…
Indu Malhotra is a retired judge and senior counsel of the Supreme Court of India. She was the second woman to be designated as Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court. She also authored the third edition of The Law and Practice of Arbitration and Conciliation (2014). The Apex court of India in a majority of…
