Botash court appeal to wait again

The Competition Appeal Court (CAC) will on April 23 hear an application for leave to appeal by ANSAC to the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA). In an interview last week, Botash managing director, Derek Cochrane, said the appeals ANSAC keeps on lodging are just delaying tactics as the case has been dragging for nearly seven years without any meaningful progress.  The latest appeal emanates from the Competition Tribunal dismissal in September 2006 in which ANSAC had lodged an application to have Botash and its legal team, inclusive of economists, removed from the matter.

In January this year, ANSAC appealed to the Competition Appeal Court (CAC) but the CAC confirmed the decision of the Tribunal.  According to the Competition Tribunal website, after the dismissal by the (CAC), ANSAC is said to have filed leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal.