The role of the public interest in competition law: a consideration of the public interest in merger control and exemptions in South Africa and how the public interest plays a more important role in the competition laws of South Africa and of develop

This paper considers the role accorded to, and importance of, the public interest objectives of the South African Competition Act[1] (the Act). The aim of this paper is not to critique these objectives or to consider what role these objectives have played in South African competition jurisprudence in the eleven years since the enactment of the Act, but to accept such objectives and specifically consider what effect has been given to them in the other provisions of the Competition Act that expressly deal with the public interest, [2] and to argue that the competition authorities should not be too eager to diminish the importance of these sections, but that the public interest should play an important role in the competition law of South Africa and other developing nations, and as such, that the South African competition authorities should recognise this.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Commercial Law

Year dc:date.issued

2009

Author dc:creator

• Teague, Ian Graeme

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Davis, Dennis

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4569

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/4569