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.
March 17, 2014
The deadline for papers for the OECD’s “Competition Policy Challenge No. 1” is March 31, 2014. The competition, which was first announced late last fall and closes at the end of this month, was launched as the first in a multi-part competition policy paper competition, open to young researchers and PhD-level students.
March 13, 2014
A new competition/antitrust law compliance text caught my eye today, entitled: The Executive’s Antitrust Guide to Pricing: Understanding Implications of Typical Marketing, Distribution, and Pricing Practices (Brian Moran, Lee Simowitz; Thomson Reuters) (see: here).
March 13, 2014
Guest post by Tamara Dini
(Director, Bowman Gilfillan)
In October last year, Takata Corp. of Japan announced that it would pay US$71.3 million to settle charges of competition law infringements brought by U.S. prosecutors over price-fixing on seat belts sold to vehicle manufacturers. This proposed settlement was one of many in a long-running investigation by competition law authorities in several countries into price-fixing in relation to more than 30 types of car parts, including seat belts, radiators, windshield wipers, air-conditioning systems, power window motors and power steering components.
March 11, 2014
In one of the more interesting local competition stories I’ve begun to follow, Toronto is proposing to liberalize the operation of food trucks in the City. According to a new City of Toronto staff report, rosily entitled “New Opportunities for Toronto’s Street Food Vendors”, the new food truck proposal is intended to provide “new opportunities for street food vendors across the City and more choices to the public for a diverse street food experience”.
March 6, 2014
Readers of my blog will know that I like competition, a lot (and that I like regulation, well, a lot less). While I make my livelihood from regulation (I am a lawyer after all), my view is that most markets are better off driven by the market not regulators – that’s just my view, and obviously there’s a lot of debate over where the regulatory line should be (and different considerations in different industries).
March 3, 2014
In what can only be described as a somewhat sobering announcement, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced earlier today that a former prime contractor manager has been sentenced to serve 14 years in prison in an ongoing bid-rigging, fraud and kickback case. According to the DoJ, this is the longest sentence ever imposed in the U.S. involving an antirust crime.
March 3, 2014
It seems to me that competition law issues are in the media a lot more over the past few years. And so they should be (ok that’s my, slightly, biased view as a competition lawyer), given that competition affects virtually every decision Canadian consumers make – from buying groceries, to filling up the car, to cell phone plans to choice of where to buy their beer (a recent bugaboo for me of late, the liquor retailing debate).
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
