Royal Mail Group Plc v The Postal Services Commission: Admn 25 May 2007

Application, lodged as an appeal, seeking to quash a financial penalty of andpound;1 million imposed by the Respondent upon the appellants for breaches of the licence granted by Postcomm to the appellants. Postcomm is the body constituted under the 2000 Act, which is responsible for granting licences to enable persons to ‘convey a letter from one place to another’, to impose appropriate conditions on any such licence and generally to ‘exercise its functions in the manner which it considers is best calculated to further the interests of users of postal services, wherever appropriate by promoting effective competition between postal operators.’

Collins J
[2007] EWHC 1205 (Admin)
Bailii
Postal Services Act 2000

Utilities

Updated: 20 January 2022; Ref: scu.567212