Online sales ban ruling – leave to appeal refused by the Supreme Court
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