http://incsub.org/fireside John Carmichael meets competition law on the world wide web Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:48:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In this session I refer to a recent purchase of a book bought at a higher price than that available from a free-rider. We then proceed to a discussion of the pro-and con arguments in relation to vertical restraints and how these are reflected in the TPA. We see that these ... http://incsub.org/fireside/2005/fireside-chat-no-11-harry-potter-finds-a-taxi/ In Fireside Chat No 10 I discuss the relevance to competition law of recent discussions concerning the regulation of Telstra and, more briefly, the preliminary skirmishes of the action brought by Channel 7 in the Federal Court against News, PBL and Telstra et al alleging anti-competitive ... http://incsub.org/fireside/2005/28/ This Fireside Chat is a tale of two prohibited forms of conduct- exclusionary provisions and price-fixing- and why and how these prohibitions arise. A CAU containing or giving effect to the former (which is defined in s4D) or the latter-as defined in s45A, must be authorised to avoid offending ... http://incsub.org/fireside/2005/fireside-chat-no-8-the-per-se-prohibitions-in-s45-of-the-tpa/ In this session we discuss the important role of section 45 of the TPA. I mention that we devote three of our e-tutorials to this section which alone is indicative of it significance. The section operates to both ban (unless authorised) exclusionary provisions and horizontal price-fixing. We discuss the ... http://incsub.org/fireside/2005/fireside-chat-no-7-anti-competitive-agreements/ In this very brief chat I consider the goals of Australian competition law in the context of our previous discussion of the views of Chicago School and Harvard School theorists. I suggest that the essence eof the Hilmer reforms that were largely implemented in the 1995 Competition Policy Reform Act ... http://incsub.org/fireside/2005/fireside-chat-no-6-chicago-school-and-harvard-school-theorists-2/ This special Fireside Chat has been recorded to accompany the launch on to DSO of the Economics Toolkit. That Toolkit has been prepared by Dr Phil Hellier, a senior lecturer at Deakin in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance. It consists of some 50 power-point slides, arranged in ... http://incsub.org/fireside/2005/special-fireside-chat/ In this fireside chat I initially discuss the technical aspects about how the key competition provisions of the Trade Practices Act have been enacted as state and territory laws without sacrificing the principle of parliamentary sovereignty. The result is that there is now a unified, nationally based competition law regime. The question ... http://incsub.org/fireside/2005/fireside-chat-no-5/ In this session I discuss the operation of severance in the doctrine of restraint of trade, and , in particular, problems encountered by the use of mechanically generated ladder clauses. The courts have complained this leaves them in the position of being asked to issue advisory opinions and determining ... http://incsub.org/fireside/2005/firesie-chat-no-4/ In this third fireside chat I discuss the topic of restraint of trade. Our cartoon reminds us that the doctrine can apply to those who earn money from sport, especially when any restriction is imposed upon players rather than negotiated with them. We review the doctrine from a time ... http://incsub.org/fireside/2005/fireside-chat-3/ In this second podcast I review Topic 1 in MLL 409-Competition Law and Policy, concentrating particulalry on historical factors leading to a comprehensive statutory regime in the USA and the reasons for the slow arrival of competition law in Australia. I also discuss both the central cartoon for this unit and ... http://incsub.org/fireside/2005/fireside-chat-no-2/