The Competition Appeal Tribunal Rules 2003

Intervention

16.—(1) Any person who considers he has sufficient interest in the outcome may make a request to the Tribunal for permission to intervene in the proceedings.

(2) The request must be sent to the Registrar within the period referred to in rule 15(2)(f).

(3) The Registrar shall give notice of the request for permission to intervene to all the other parties to the proceedings and invite their observations on that request within a specified period.

(4) A request for permission to intervene must state—

(a)the title of the proceedings to which that request relates;

(b)the name and address of the person wishing to intervene;

(c)the name and address of his legal representative, if appropriate;

(d)an address for service in the United Kingdom.

(5) The request must contain—

(a)a concise statement of the matters in issue in the proceedings which affect the person making the request;

(b)the name of any party whose position the person making the request intends to support; and

(c)a succinct presentation of the reasons for making the request.

(6) If the Tribunal is satisfied, having taken into account the observations of the parties, that the intervening party has a sufficient interest, it may permit the intervention on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit.

(7) On granting permission in accordance with paragraph (6), the Tribunal shall give all such consequential directions as it considers necessary with regard, in particular, to the service on the intervener of the documents lodged with the Registrar, the submission by the intervener of a statement of intervention and, if appropriate, the submission by the principal parties of a response to the statement of intervention.

(8) In making any decision or direction under this rule the Tribunal shall have regard to the matters referred to in paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 4 to the 2002 Act.

(9) The statement of intervention and any response thereto shall contain:

(a)a succinct presentation of the facts and arguments supporting the intervention;

(b)the relief sought by the intervener;

(c)a schedule listing all the documents annexed to the intervention and, as far as possible, a copy of every document on which the intervener relies including the written statements of witnesses of fact or expert witnesses, if any.

(10) Rules 9, 10 (except 10(1)(b)) and 11 shall apply to the statement of intervention.