Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law update: December 2013

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The latest issue of the Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law (Volume 21 Part 4) contains the following material:

EDITORIAL

• The perils of alleging unconscionability

Article

Part IIIA – the current state of play – Verity Quinn and Rosannah Healy

This article looks at the current state of Pt IIIA of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) and the benefits of Australia having a national third party access regime. It includes a brief history of the regime and recent developments. Focusing largely on declaration, the article includes a discussion of the recent High Court and Australian Competition Tribunal decisions regarding applications to declare various iron ore railways in the Pilbara. It concludes with the authors’ view of the key benefits brought about by having a national third party access regime in place.

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Sections

ACCESS TO SERVICES

• Business as usual? Implications of the Pilbara decision for access to gas pipeline facilities – Thomas Kaldor and David Mierendorff

ADMINISTRATION AND NATIONAL COMPETITION POLICY

• Resolving business to business disputes: A new specific role for mandatory industry codes of conduct – Frank Zumbo

CONSUMER PROTECTION

• Where the cure ends up worse than the disease: Vaccines and the implied warranty as to merchantability – Bernard McCabe

ENERGY ETCHINGS

• Energy network regulation: Consumers in focus – Andrew Reeves

COMMENTS FROM COMMERCE

• Australian infrastructure regulation – A business perspective – Simon Pryor

REPORT FROM EUROPE

• Modernisation of the European union trade defence system – reform de jure and de facto – Laurent Ruessmann and Jochen Beck

REPORT FROM NORTH AMERICA

• The Supreme Court decision on pay for delay: An economic perspective – Christopher Pleatsikas

REPORT FROM RUSSIA

• Regulation of distant trading in Russia – Julia Borisova

BENCHMARKS

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