Archive for the 'News' Category
April 8, 2014
The Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (see: here) has published a new April issue, which includes articles on:
“Section 5 of the FTC Act: principles of navigation”; “Erosion or innovation?: The institutional design of competition agencies – A Dutch case study”; “Legal problems of digital evidence”; “Japan’s Antimonopoly Act – recent developments in private monopolization”; “The UK response to the global effort against cartels: is criminalization really the solution?”; “Immunity for cartel conduct: revolution or religion? An Australian case study”; “Loyalty discounts and theories of harm in the Intel investigations”; and “Understanding the limits of judicial review in European competition law”.
April 7, 2014
Earlier today the Competition Bureau issued remarks from the Canadian Commissioner of Competition’s (John Pecman) talk in Vancouver at the Grocery Showcase West of the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers (CFIG).
April 7, 2014
As an update to two association cases that I blogged about last December (see: here), this past Friday the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it had approved settlements with two professional associations for allegedly restraining competition through association codes of ethics.
April 4, 2014
The Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia (CLE BC) has published its Annual Review of Law & Practice – 2014. This summary of major areas of Canadian law applicable in British Columbia includes my co-authored chapter on Canadian competition law developments and trends in 2013.
March 30, 2014
Canada’s Competition Bureau has issued a number of new anti-cartel (Competition Act conspiracy) compliance materials, including an updated version of its Bid-Rigging Pamphlet and two new pamphlets: a Competitor Collaboration Pamphlet (a more comprehensive set of Bureau enforcement guidelines on this topic already exists) and an entirely new Trade Associations Pamphlet.
The Bureau had been planning to issue a standalone Bulletin on associations several years ago, but has evidently opted to rely on the association related discussion in its Competitor Collaboration Guidelines and this newly issued short pamphlet. The Bureau has also issued a new video on competition law compliance.
March 27, 2014
The University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy has published a new research paper on Canada’s foreign investment regime entitled China’s State-Owned Enterprises and Canada’s FDI Policy (authored by Wendy Dobson, University of Toronto).
March 20, 2014
Guest post by Martin G. Masse
(with Neil Campbell, Monica Podgomy)
Martin Masse at McMillan has written what I thought was a very good and interesting update on recent changes made by Public Works in Canada to tighten up their procurement policies (reprinted with permission).
March 17, 2014
LexisNexis Canada has published an interesting new Canadian business law text, by Bryce C. Tingle, entitled: Start-Up and Growth Companies in Canada – A Guide to Legal and Business Practice, 2nd Edition. A student edition is also available – see: here.
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
