Archive for the 'Conspiracy' Category
September 25, 2013
The Competition Bureau has issued revised Immunity Program FAQs and Leniency Program FAQs (see: Competition Bureau Publishes Revised Immunity and Leniency FAQs). In making the announcement, relating to the first update to its Immunity/Leniency Program FAQs since 2010, the Bureau said:
September 20, 2013
Yesterday the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) announced that two executives of Fujikura Ltd. have been indicted for their roles in the ongoing global auto parts price-fixing investigation. In this case, the indictments relate to allegations that the two executives participated in a conspiracy to fix the prices of automotive wire harnesses sold to Subara for installation in US and other cars.
August 20, 2013
Lately I’ve been seeing a lot more media and other coverage of cartels in Canada. These have included recent record fines of $5 million and $30 million achieved by the Competition Bureau in two auto-parts related bid-rigging cases (see: here), the ongoing gas price-fixing case in Quebec in which three more individuals were recently sentenced and fined (see: here), commentary relating to export cartels and Canpotex/potash production and policy commentary on regulated markets (see for example the C.D. Howe’s recent report: Beer, Butter and Barristers: How Canadian Governments Put Cartels Before Consumers).
July 17, 2013
Readers of my blog will know that I do a lot of work with trade and professional associations. In this regard, a topic that perennially arises (and which I continually find interesting) relates to “information exchanges” that occur at and through associations.
July 16, 2013
Two competition law cases caught my eye this morning in my daily media sweep involving trade associations – one with allegations of price-fixing against German flour mills and the other with a challenge by the Irish competition authority for an alleged boycott by Irish physicians.
June 15, 2013
In an interesting decision issued yesterday, the Alberta Court of Appeal overturned a Court of Queen’s Bench decision that found that two oil producers (Husky and Exxon) had violated Canada’s former conspiracy offence under section 45 of the Competition Act (the “Act”) by jointly deciding not to source fluid hauling services from a company called 321665 Alberta Ltd. (Kolt) (321665 Alberta Ltd. v. Husky Oil Operations Ltd., 2013 ABCA 221).
May 28, 2013
Somewhat coincidentally, having just written a short note yesterday on SNC-Lavalin’s announced internal amnesty program and whistleblower protections under the Competition Act, the Interim Commissioner of Competition announced a new Competition Bureau “Criminal Cartel Whistleblowing Initiative” today as part of remarks given at the CBA’s annual Spring competition law conference.
May 8, 2013
The C.D. Howe Institute has published a new report on cartel detection entitled Coming in From the Cold: Improving Cartel Detection and Reporting. The report argues in general that the Competition Bureau and federal government should ensure that sufficient resources and policy emphasis are placed on the investigation, detection and prosecution of domestic cartels (i.e., Canadian price-fixing and other conspiracies).
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
