Fully revised and updated this 2021 edition of Annotated Competition and Consumer Legislation, extracted from Competition and Consumer Act Annotated loose-leaf service provides an essential guide to key competition and consumer law legislation accompanied by authoritative annotations and relevant case law. This 2021 edition incorporates all recent changes in the legislation up to 2 January 2021, including, inter alia, those arising from the National Emergency Declaration (Consequential Amendments) Act 2020, Treasury Laws Amendment (2020 Measures No. 6) Act 2020, Territories Legislation Amendment Act 2020, Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Consumer Law — Country of Origin Representations) Regulations 2020, Competition and Consumer Amendment (AER Functions) Regulations 2020 and more.
Features
• Detailed background on each part of the Act covering the laws’ development, its review and reform proposals
• Extensive ancillary legislation, intergovernmental agreements, guidelines and practice notes
• Extensive tables: including:
- comparative TPA/ACL and Cth/State legislation
- the Harper Committee recommendations and the Government responses; and
- the Harper Committee and Productivity Committee recommendations and Government Responses in relation to the National Access Regime
Related Titles
• Competition and Consumer Act Annotated (looseleaf and online)
• Competition and Consumer Law Journal
• Bolitho et al, Duggan and Lanyon’s Consumer Credit Law, 2ed 2019
• Bruce, Australian Competition Law, 3rd ed, 2018
• Bruce, Consumer Protection Law, 3rd ed, 2019
• Lockhart, Law of Misleading and Deceptive Conduct, 5th ed, 2018
• Sharpe, Unconscionable Conduct in Australian Consumer and Commercial Contracts, 2018
Ray Steinwall is a highly respected practicing lawyer, academic and author. He has provided legal and policy advice to business and governments nationally and internationally on competition, consumer law and regulation and published extensively in this field.
He is an Adjunct Professor UNSW Law and a Member of the Australian Competition Tribunal. He has also served on various bodies including as a Member of the Commonwealth Consumer Affairs Advisory Council and the Expert Panel on Unconscionable Conduct and the Franchising Code of Conduct. He also has knowledge of and interest in the development of competition and consumer law in the Asia Pacific.