(by Catherine Waddams) At the Labour party conference, Ed Miliband said he would freeze energy prices until 2017. Miliband’s frozen energy prices might lead to frozen homes as well. Interventions in energy markets do not have a happy history, either in California or the UK, and those …read more
Despite talk of a root and branch review of competition laws for more than a year, no competition minister appears in the new cabinet, outer ministry or among the various parliamentary secretaries in the new ministry announced today by PM-elect, Tony Abbott.
As …read more
ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims’ address to the Law Council of Australia’s Competition and Consumer Workshop is now available from the ACCC website. In it, he provides a tribute to Ron Bannerman, sets out regulatory issues for 2013, discusses the <a target=_self rel="nofollow" title="Merger Review Process Guidelines …read more
A couple of private member’s bills were introduced yesterday to get the ball rolling on this election season’s competition law craziness.
First up we have Rob Oakeshott MP’s Competition and Consumer Amendment (Strengthening Rules About Misuse of Power) Bill 2013. This proposes insertion of a subsection 46(1AAAA) …read more