Wordpress - competitionlaw.wordpress.com - Competition Law
General Information:
Latest News:
Sims’ Law Council speech 12 Aug 2013 | 09:17 am
ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims’ address to the Law Council of Australia’s Competition and Consumer Workshop is now available from the ACCC website. In it, he provides a tribute to Ron Bannerman, sets out reg...
Private member’s bill madness 18 Jun 2013 | 08:32 am
A couple of private member’s bills were introduced yesterday to get the ball rolling on this election season’s competition law craziness. First up we have Rob Oakeshott MP’s Competition and Consumer ...
ACCC releases quarterly report 21 May 2013 | 06:01 am
The ACCC has released its March 2013 quarterly report and associated press release. In relation to competition enforcement the following points are notable: There are eight carry over cases and one ne...
ACCC releases new Compliance and Enforcement Policy 21 Feb 2013 | 06:09 pm
The ACCC’s new Compliance and Enforcement Policy was released today, outlining ‘the ACCC’s priority areas for the year and sets out the factors to be taken into account when deciding whether to pursue...
Fortune Telling: Australian Competition Law in 2013 29 Jan 2013 | 12:24 am
I’ve written a brief piece for the CPI Antitrust Chonical’s fortune telling issue on what we might expect from competition law in Australia in 2013. https://www.competitionpolicyinternational.com/fort...
Postgraduate Workshop on Competition Law Enforcement – Dublin 13 Nov 2011 | 02:52 pm
International Postgraduate Workshop on Competition Law Enforcement This annual workshop, run by the PhD Community at the University College Dublin School of Law, is calling for papers by 7 December 2...
Price signalling bill passes through House 11 Jul 2011 | 12:40 pm
Following amendments, brought about by negotiation with the opposition over their proposed amendments, the Competition and Consumer Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2011 has passed through the House (on 7 July ...
Report on Price Signalling bills now released 23 Jun 2011 | 01:07 pm
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics has now released (three weeks late) the ‘Advisory Report on the Competition and Consumer (Price Signalling) Amendment Bill 2010 and the Com...
Creeping acquisition bill back in Parliament 15 Jun 2011 | 07:55 pm
In 2010 the Government announced it would introduce laws to deal with ‘creeping acquisitions’. In May 2010 they introduced a bill which they claimed would do this (see my blog post discussing the pro...
Submissions on price signalling bills due Friday 18 May 2011 | 07:48 pm
Late yesterday the Government announced that submissions to the House Standing Committee on Economics on both the opposition and the government price signalling bills (the Competition and Consumer (Pr...
