https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=457151 Section 26(1) proceedings under the Competition Act are administrative and preparatory, so the Competition Commission need not defer an investigation merely because related constitutional challenges are pending on overlapping facts. The Commission may proceed where the privacy or validity challenge before another forum concerns a different legal plane and does not oust competition jurisdiction. On the merits, the Commission had recorded a sufficient prima facie view of abuse of dominant position by identifying dominance, network effects, lock-in, lack of meaningful substitutability, and potentially unfair, exclusionary and exploitative effects of the policy update. The impleadment request was rejected because the applicant was not a party to the original proceedings and had to pursue any separate challenge independently. en-us Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 07 Sep 2024 16:58:31 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=457151 Section 26(1) proceedings under the Competition Act are administrative and preparatory, so the Competition Commission need not defer an investigation merely because related constitutional challenges are pending on overlapping facts. The Commission may proceed where the privacy or validity challenge before another forum concerns a different legal plane and does not oust competition jurisdiction. On the merits, the Commission had recorded a sufficient prima facie view of abuse of dominant position by identifying dominance, network effects, lock-in, lack of meaningful substitutability, and potentially unfair, exclusionary and exploitative effects of the policy update. The impleadment request was rejected because the applicant was not a party to the original proceedings and had to pursue any separate challenge independently. Case-Laws Law of Competition Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=457151