The ACCC will ensure businesses do not make misleading claims about price increases as a result of the carbon price.

The ACCC will be monitoring claims made in relation to the effect of the carbon price on the cost of goods and services.

Previously, collective bargaining could have been unlawful unless the businesses had received prior ACCC exemption.

New Guidelines aim to support IP rights holders and legal and business advisers in the transition to the new framework.

The "Go To Jail" card will soon be issued to individuals involved in serious cartel behaviour. The Trade Practices Amendment (Cartel Conduct and Other Measures) Bill 2008 has passed through the Senate and is currently awaiting Royal Assent.

Two more jurisdictions, Australia and South Africa, may now join the growing number of countries that impose criminal penalties for antitrust violations.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) last week filed proceedings against Australia’s leading suppliers of laundry products alleging a "laundry detergent cartel".

Australia has significantly increased penalties for competition and consumer law breaches and also expanded the scope of the law that prohibits unfair contract terms ("UCT").

As part of the Australian Consumer Law amendments to the Trade Practices Act (TPA) passed earlier in the year, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has been given the power to issue substantiation notices that require a corporation to deliver up information and/or documents that substantiate claims or representations that have been made about products or services within 21 days (or later if an extension can be negotiated). The notices are intended to be used as a preliminary

In late 2021, Tourism Holdings Limited ("THL") and its wholly owned subsidiary THL Group (Australia) Pty Ltd, announced mutually agreed plans to acquire Apollo Tourism & Leisure Ltd ("Apollo").

The newsletter includes summaries and links to media releases and reports relating to competition and consumer law.

This newsletter includes links to recent media releases, reports and cases relating to competition and consumer law.

Reminder for the hospitality & retail liquor sector to consider whether your transaction could raise competition concerns.

In the first substantive decision concerning the new 'bad faith' grounds of opposition under the Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth), the Australian Trade Marks Office has provided some guidance as to how oppositions made under this section will be considered, and the scope of evidence required to both establish and refute a claim of bad faith.

The DPP is prosecuting this alleged cartel conduct as a criminal offence, which suggests that the ACCC is confident.

Shopper dockets are over a decade old, and the ACCC knows it won't win a predatory pricing case over this petrol issue.

In May 2021, we published a short article noting that civil proceedings had been commenced by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ("ACCC")...

On 27 March 2014 the government released the terms of reference for its root and branch competition policy review.

The Australian Federal Court ordered computer reseller MSY Technology to pay a $750,000 fine to the ACCC for misrepresenting consumers' rights on remedies for faulty goods.

Under the existing unfair contracts provisions in the ACL and ASIC Act, a court can declare an unfair term of a standard form consumer contract to be void.