Month: August 2013

NZCC packages up Visy’s liability

August 29, 2013 | 0 Comments

Last week, the High Court of New Zealand ordered packaging giant Visy Board Pty Ltd (Visy) to pay a NZ$3.6 million fine for price fixing.  Visy was found to have conspired to fix the prices...

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Feeling Fuelish

August 26, 2013 | 0 Comments

Last week, the Quebec Superior Court fined three executives CAD 15,000 each for their role in a petrol cartel. Yves Gosselin, an employee of Irving Oil; Michel Lagrandeur, an independent dealer operating under the Shell...

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If the ACCC v TPG were a tennis match, it would be one set-all, with the ACCC taking a slight lead in the third and final set. First set: ACCC wins against TPG (see here for...

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China cracks the whip

August 23, 2013 | 0 Comments

China’s regulatory authorities have been particularly busy in the last few weeks by: imposing fines on six infant formula manufacturers for engaging in resale price maintenance (blogged about here and here); imposing fines on five...

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A bag half full

August 22, 2013 | 1 Comments

KWM’s China antitrust team, led by Susan Ning, have posted an article on MOFCOM’s conditional clearance of Baxter’s acquisition of Gambro on our sister blog, China Law Insight. According to the approval condition, Gambro must...

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As reported in our previous blog post, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) brought proceedings against Lux Distributors Pty Ltd (Lux) after five elderly women were sold Lux vacuum cleaners between 2009 and 2011,...

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Faster than a crawling baby

August 19, 2013 | 1 Comments

Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, has said that “Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.” In...

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The pre-election legislative commitments are continuing, with Senator Xenophon suggesting the latest changes to Australia’s competition laws. Senator Xenophon has announced plans to draft legislation to provide the ACCC with a power to issue ‘cease and...

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Fear of losing? Not the ACCC

August 15, 2013 | 0 Comments

Following Rod Sims’ speech in February this year on the ACCC’s priorities for 2013, the ACCC Chairman has again outlined the Commission’s priorities in a wide-ranging address to the Law Council of Australia.  The ACCC’s...

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The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has rejected an appeal made by the Schindler Group against the findings of the General Court in regard to fines imposed by the European Commission (EC) for cartel conduct in...

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