The Business Law Reports
[2019] Bus LR 198
Court of Appeal
Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd v MasterCard Inc and others (European Commission intervening)
Asda Stores Ltd and others v MasterCard Inc and others (European Commission intervening)
Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd v Visa Europe llc and others (European Commission intervening)
[2018] EWCA Civ 1536
2018 April 16–
20,
23–
27;
July 2;
4
Sir Terence Etherton MR,Sir Geoffrey Vos C, Flaux LJ
Competition— Restriction or distortion of competition— Anti-competitive agreement— Credit and debit card companies imposing default multilateral interchange fees passed on to merchants when accepting card payments from cardholders— Whether rules of schemes setting default multilateral interchange fees restrictive of competition— Whether exemption available—
FEU Treaty
, art 101(1)(3)FEU