The ACCC has demonstrated once again that it will pursue contempt actions in a range of contexts....
Read More →US Congress passes bill to remove the time limit on protection against treble damages, preserving the incentive for whistle blowers....
Read More →Pay-for-delay pharmaceutical agreements have attracted scrutiny from regulators in the US and EU. With last year's repeal of the intellectual property exemption in the CCA, these agreements are at greater risk of Australian regulatory attention...
Read More →On 4 June 2020, the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore issued an Infringement Decision against three companies for their involvement in anti-competitive agreements to rig tenders issued by Wildlife Reserves Singapore for the provision...
Read More →How is your business responding to the COVID-19 pandemic? This alert examines the key competition and consumer laws that businesses may encounter during this time, discusses how the ACCC, the Courts and the Government...
Read More →ACCC publishes report on activities for the last quarter of 2019, highlighting the regulator’s key wins, decisions and inquiries in the period...
Read More →Hot off the heels of its Annual Report the ACCC has published its quarterly ACCCount report for July – September 2019....
Read More →The ACCC has published its 2018/19 Annual Report, providing us with an in-depth look at its operations for the year....
Read More →After more than four years of investigations by the ACCC, on 23 August 2019 the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) charged Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean AS (WWO), a Norwegian-based global shipping company, with criminal cartel...
Read More →The sea of penalties for criminal cartel conduct is slowly deepening. On 2 August 2019, the Federal Court imposed the largest ever penalty for criminal cartel conduct under the CCA, fining K-Line $34.5 million for giving...
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