After years of gestation, New Zealand law now provides criminal penalties for serious cartel conduct, in a similar form to Australia’s laws that are about to experience their tenth birthday....
Read More →The ACCC’s announcement that it has signed a cooperation agreement with the FBI signals its increasingly proactive approach to criminal cartel investigations...
Read More →The prosecution of Country Care is the first to prosecute an Australian company and individuals. The progress of the case throws up procedural challenges unique to the new criminal cartel jurisdiction. ...
Read More →Businesses who license their IP rights need to act now and review their licensing and assignment arrangements to ensure compliance with the CCA....
Read More →The most recent quarterly ACCCount of the ACCC’s regulatory and enforcement activities paints a picture of a regulator emboldened by the new environment cultivated by the Financial Services Royal Commission....
Read More →Cryosite has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay $1.05 million in penalties in Australia's first “gun jumping” cartel conduct case....
Read More →Still much work to be done...
Read More →ACCC resolves to re-think its approach to penalties based on OECD report finding that average Australian penalties are substantially lower than those imposed in comparable jurisdictions for breaches of competition law...
Read More →February was a frenetic month: the ACCC released its 2018 priorities, two Bills on the ACL were released and the Productivity Commission released its draft report on competition in the Australian Financial System....
Read More →Cartel conduct is set to become a criminal offence for the first time in New Zealand following the tabling of a new bill in Parliament....
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