{"id":3571,"date":"2017-04-25T15:37:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T14:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ccpc.ie\/business\/?page_id=3571"},"modified":"2022-05-23T09:52:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T08:52:45","slug":"credit-union-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ccpc.inventise.ie\/business\/enforcement\/civil-competition-enforcement\/civil-court-cases\/credit-union-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court overturns High Court abuse of dominance ruling in the market for credit union representation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"level-2\">\n<div class=\"attachments\">\n<h2>Page Attachment<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ccpc.inventise.ie\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/High-Court-Judgment-ILCU-.pdf\">High Court judgment<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ccpc.inventise.ie\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/Supreme-Court-Judgment-ILCU.pdf\">Supreme Court judgment<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><!--\/endattachments-->\n<h3>Outcome of the Court Action<\/h3>\n<p>In 2007, the Supreme Court overturned an earlier High Court judgment that the Irish League of Credit Unions (ILCU) had abused its dominant position in the market for Savings Protection for Members\u2019 Deposits in Credit Unions (SPS).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"level-2\">\n<h3>Outline of case<\/h3>\n<p>In the High Court proceedings, the Competition Authority (the Authority) alleged that the ILCU was dominant in the market for SPS and had abused this dominance by tying its SPS to the purchase of its credit union representation services. The Authority viewed this loss of access to the SPS as a breach of competition law, as it would deny non-ILCU credit unions access to an important facility for protecting individual members\u2019 savings.<\/p>\n<p>In the opinion of the Authority this action restricted competition in the market for credit union representation. In October 2004, the High Court found in favour of the Authority.<\/p>\n<p>The ILCU appealed the judgment to the Supreme Court where the High Court\u2019s decision was overturned. This case was the first time that the Supreme Court had been called on to adjudicate on a substantive issue in Irish competition law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"level-2\">\n<h3>Relevant provision<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishstatutebook.ie\/2002\/en\/act\/pub\/0014\/sec0005.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Section 5 of the Competition Act 2002<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/LexUriServ\/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:12008E102:EN:HTML\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, the Supreme Court overturned an earlier High Court judgment that the Irish League of Credit Unions had abused its dominant position in the market for Savings Protection for Members\u2019 Deposits in Credit Unions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"parent":653,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[38,25],"class_list":["post-3571","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-civil-competition-enforcement","tag-civil-court-cases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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