Regina v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry ex parte Mercury Personal Communications Limited and Mercury Personal Communications (a Firm Trading As One2One): CA 6 Aug 1999

It was within the Secretary of State’s powers to insist that those mobile phone operators who wished to renew their licences, or bid for further licences, should first, and as a condition of so doing, accept as a precondition for such application, consent to alterations in the terms of their existing licences.

Citations:

Gazette 27-Oct-1999, Times 20-Oct-1999, [1999] EWCA Civ 2072, [1999] EWCA Civ 1560

Links:

Bailii, Bailii

Statutes:

Wireless Telegraphy Act 1998

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Licensing, Media

Updated: 31 May 2022; Ref: scu.146987