Legal Standards in Excessive Pricing: Reflecting on the Old and Making Sense of the New

This webinar series seeks to explore the Competition Amendment Act (2019)’s introduction of new legal standards applicable for the evaluation of prohibited practices and merges. This webinar focuses on the legal standards applicable to excessive pricing enforcement.  Where the Competition Commission of South Africa has had little success at prosecuting excessive pricing cases prior to amendment, since then – combined with the Covid-19 pandemic necessitating the utilization of price gouging under the rubric of excessive prices – South Africa has seen an increase in the number of these cases initiated and a higher rate of prosecutorial success.