The golf club manufacturer Ping Europe Limited (Ping) had sought to ban all sales of its equipment online. The Competition and Market Authority (CMA) decided that Ping's actions constituted a restriction of competition by object under the Chapter I prohibition of the Competition Act 1998 and Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Ping appealed this decision to the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), which upheld the CMA’s decision. Ping appealed th

The Employment Appeals Tribunal has upheld an employment tribunal's decision that a dismissal by an employer for "some other substantial reason" that was made without following any disciplinary procedure was not unfair. In a rare, and fact specific, decision, the EAT ruled that where following disciplinary procedures could reasonably be considered to be futile, the employer need not implement them. In this matter the tribunal had found not only that a procedure would not have

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court held that an established rule of company law restricting third parties from suing persons alleged to have harmed a company in a manner that caused reflective loss should be followed and even narrowed to apply to situations involving shareholders claiming for diminutions in value. The Supreme Court affirmed that the principle against reflective loss is “limited to claims by shareholders that, as a result of actionable loss suffered by