Competition Tribunal orders UK’s Linpac Plastics to hand over ‘cartel’ papers
The Competition Tribunal has given UK-based Linpac Plastics, a group with subsidiaries around the world, five business days to hand over documents related to allegations of cartel involvement in SA from 1998 and 2007. Linpac supplies plastic packaging for the protein, bakery, fruit and produce and food service markets from its network of sales offices and factories throughout Europe. The matter before the tribunal stems from a case at the Western Cape High Court in which Linpac Plastics seeks damages against two former directors, Jacobus du Plessis and Judex Burnett, for breach of restraint-of-trade agreements by forming rival company Lion Packaging. The tribunal ordered Linpac to hand over its divisional standing orders and antitrust policies, particularly those relating to 2002 to 2008. It also ordered the discovery of relevant correspondence between Linpac and Du Plessis and Burnett. In the high court matter, Du Plessis and Burnett raised a defence against the quantum of damages ...
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