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...
Read More →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...
Read More →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,...
Read More →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...
Read More →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...
Read More →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...
Read More →Following on from our blog earlier this year, we can report that ByteCard Pty Limited (Bytecard) has been well and truly bitten! Late last week, the Federal Court declared, by consent, that a number of...
Read More →With the prospect of enforcement action from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for the use of misleading ‘credence’ claims, seven manufacturers in the bottled water industry have dropped claims that their product is...
Read More →A former Tasmanian Europcar franchisee, BAJV Pty Ltd (BAJV), has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay a $200,000 civil pecuniary penalty after admitting to deliberately overcharging customers to repair damaged hire vehicles and...
Read More →On Friday, 12 July 2013 the ACCC filed proceedings against Japanese ball bearing manufacturer Koyo Australia Pty Ltd in the Federal Court, seeking pecuniary penalties as well as declarations and injunctions. As the ACCC’s press...
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