Post by Finnish Gas on Feb 9, 2015 19:54:11 GMT
There are lots of general links on Mr Justice Roth including:
www.catribunal.org.uk/246-4474/The-Honourable-Mr-Justice-Roth.html
www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/975/Peter-Marcel-Roth-ROTH
www.justice.gov.uk/news/judicial-appointments/judicial-011013-154
Important football related matter:
Neutral citation [2014] CAT 17
IN THE COMPETITION
APPEAL TRIBUNAL
Victoria House
Bloomsbury Place
London WC1A 2EB
Case Number: 1152/8/3/10
(IR)
5 November 2014
Before:
THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE ROTH
(President)
Sitting as a Tribunal in England and Wales
B E T W E E N:
BRITISH SKY BROADCASTING LIMITED
Applicant
-v-
OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS
Respondent
- and -
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC
VIRGIN MEDIA, INC.
THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION PREMIER LEAGUE LIMITED
TOP-UP TV EUROPE LIMITED
EE LIMITED
Interveners
Heard in Victoria House on 23rd July 2014
_____________________________________________________________________
JUDGMENT (Application to Vary Interim Order)
_________________________________________________________
www.catribunal.org.uk/files/1152_Judgment_CAT_17_051114.pdf
Sky Sports must be offered to BT’s YouView customers, says regulator
Mr Justice Roth said BT’s move should not mean the company does not also benefit from Ofcom’s mechanism to address issues with the pricing of BSkyB’s sports channels.
“I do not think it is any answer to say that BT could obtain Sky Sports 1 and 2 if only it were prepared to offer reciprocal supply to Sky of BT Sport channels,” said Roth. “BT has spent some £1.5bn acquiring football broadcasting rights in order to improve its position on the market and I do not see that BT should be required, in effect, to deprove itself of the competitive gain from that investment in order to achieve the benefit of the wholesale must offer remedy ordered by Ofcom.”
However, Roth said he did not want to “prejudge” Ofcom’s review of the wholesale must offer mechanism, in light of the growth of BT’s TV service.
But he added: “Sky has no less a share of the total number of games than it had at the time of the pay-TV statement [by Ofcom in 2010], when the balance of those rights was held by ESPN, although I appreciate that the rights acquired by BT significantly include valuable rights to ‘first pick’ matched which ESPN had not enjoyed.”
www.theguardian.com/media/2014/nov/05/sky-sports-bt-youview
www.ft.com/cms/s/0/89e7d804-6502-11e4-ab2d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3RHJeiw5d
We appear to have a top judge whose specialism is Competition Law!!
www.catribunal.org.uk/246-4474/The-Honourable-Mr-Justice-Roth.html
www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/975/Peter-Marcel-Roth-ROTH
www.justice.gov.uk/news/judicial-appointments/judicial-011013-154
Important football related matter:
Neutral citation [2014] CAT 17
IN THE COMPETITION
APPEAL TRIBUNAL
Victoria House
Bloomsbury Place
London WC1A 2EB
Case Number: 1152/8/3/10
(IR)
5 November 2014
Before:
THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE ROTH
(President)
Sitting as a Tribunal in England and Wales
B E T W E E N:
BRITISH SKY BROADCASTING LIMITED
Applicant
-v-
OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS
Respondent
- and -
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC
VIRGIN MEDIA, INC.
THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION PREMIER LEAGUE LIMITED
TOP-UP TV EUROPE LIMITED
EE LIMITED
Interveners
Heard in Victoria House on 23rd July 2014
_____________________________________________________________________
JUDGMENT (Application to Vary Interim Order)
_________________________________________________________
www.catribunal.org.uk/files/1152_Judgment_CAT_17_051114.pdf
Sky Sports must be offered to BT’s YouView customers, says regulator
Mr Justice Roth said BT’s move should not mean the company does not also benefit from Ofcom’s mechanism to address issues with the pricing of BSkyB’s sports channels.
“I do not think it is any answer to say that BT could obtain Sky Sports 1 and 2 if only it were prepared to offer reciprocal supply to Sky of BT Sport channels,” said Roth. “BT has spent some £1.5bn acquiring football broadcasting rights in order to improve its position on the market and I do not see that BT should be required, in effect, to deprove itself of the competitive gain from that investment in order to achieve the benefit of the wholesale must offer remedy ordered by Ofcom.”
However, Roth said he did not want to “prejudge” Ofcom’s review of the wholesale must offer mechanism, in light of the growth of BT’s TV service.
But he added: “Sky has no less a share of the total number of games than it had at the time of the pay-TV statement [by Ofcom in 2010], when the balance of those rights was held by ESPN, although I appreciate that the rights acquired by BT significantly include valuable rights to ‘first pick’ matched which ESPN had not enjoyed.”
www.theguardian.com/media/2014/nov/05/sky-sports-bt-youview
www.ft.com/cms/s/0/89e7d804-6502-11e4-ab2d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3RHJeiw5d
We appear to have a top judge whose specialism is Competition Law!!
