The England & Wales Court of Appeal issues a judgment on the test to be applied by the Office of Fair Trading when deciding whether it must refer transactions to the Competition Commission for further competition review (IBA Health)

Outcome of IBA Health appeal* The Court of Appeal today gave its judgment in the hotly anticipated IBA Health case, which centres on the test to be applied by the Office of Fair Trading ("OFT") when deciding whether it must refer transactions to the Competition Commission ("CC") for further competition review. The Court of Appeal upheld the substance of the CAT's finding in this specific case