[2025] HKCA 1120 — COMPETITION COMMISSION V. ATAL BUILDING SERVICES ENGINEERING LTD AND OTHERS (and 3 others)

Practice Areas

Competition Ordinance Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance Rules of the High Court

Judges (2)

Counsel (11)

Baker & McKenzie Firm Deacons Firm Dentons Hong Kong LLP Firm Abraham Chan Counsel Respondent Benjamin Yu Counsel Applicant Jonathan Ng Counsel Respondent Joshua Chan Counsel Respondent Leticia Tang Counsel Applicant Norman Nip Counsel Applicant Paul Shieh Counsel Respondent Stephen Crosswell Counsel Respondent

Parties (7)

ATAL Building Services Engineering Limited Respondent Competition Commission Applicant Johnson Controls Hong Kong Limited Respondent Johnson Controls International PLC Respondent York International (Northern Asia) Limited Respondent CACV 1093/2025 and CACV 1094/2025 Unknown Lee Yui Ming Respondent

Summary

Competition Commission appeal against Atal Building Services Engineering Ltd and others in four consolidated proceedings relating to bid-rigging in the building services sector. The Competition Tribunal had made findings in the original proceedings, and the Court of Appeal addressed important questions about competition law enforcement, procedural fairness, and the scope of penalties. The case involved multiple corporate and individual respondents in Hong Kong's first contested competition law enforcement actions.

Statutes Cited

Competition Ordinance (Cap 619)

s 6

Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance (Cap 383)

Rules of the High Court (Cap 4A)

Cases Cited (28)

UK (13)

[1969] 1 WLR 1378 [1984] Ch 290 [1989] AC 1280 [1994] 1 WLR 172 [1996] 1 WLR 1569 [2000] 1 WLR 2436 [2004] 2 AC 134 [2006] 1 WLR 2066 [2009] 1 AC 990 [2011] 1 AC 662 [2016] 1 WLR 361 [2019] AC 96 [2021] 1 WLR 4877

AU (1)

[2009] FCAFC 32

HK (14)

(2003) 6 HKCFAR 336 (2008) 11 HKCFAR 170 [2000] 4 HKC 404 [2002] 3 HKLRD 805 [2017] 1 HKLRD 788 [2017] 2 HKLRD 896 [2018] 3 HKC 173 [2020] 2 HKLRD 1229 [2020] 4 HKLRD 61 [2022] 4 HKLRD 425 [2023] 5 HKLRD 665 [2023] HKCFI 1538 [2023] HKCT 9 [2024] HKCT 1

Cited By (1)

[2026] HKCA 214

COMPETITION COMMISSION V. ATAL BUILDING SERVICES ENGINEERING LTD AND OTHERS (and 1 other)