Commission rapped by Appeal Court judge

‘The Commission cannot abrogate its statutory functions by agreement,’ Judge Selwyn Selikowitz ruled at a Competition Appeal Court hearing in Cape Town. A report on the IoL site says the ruling related to a 2002 Treatment Action Campaign complaint to the commission that manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline was charging excessive prices for antiretroviral drugs. Selikowitz said the Commission was obliged to refer to the Tribunal any complaint which it believed involved a prohibited practice. Full report on the IoL site