Landfill Case Makes It to the Top of the Heap: Canada’s Highest Court to Rule on “Prevention” of Competition Framework In Tervita

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Nikiforos Iatrou, Bronwyn Roe, Mar 26, 2014

For the first time in nearly 20 years, a contested merger case is before the Supreme Court of Canada.The SCC is scheduled to hear an appeal from the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision in Tervita on March 27, 2014 which will address the framework to be applied in a challenge of a merger on the basis that it is likely to prevent competition substantially in the relevant market.

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