LAW 525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Multi-Level Marketing, Bid Rigging, True Crime
28 Jul 2016
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Premise: competiton is good for business & consumers. Purpose: 1) promote economic efficiency & adaptability, 2) expand opportunities globally, 3) gives smaller businesses a fair chance to compete, 4) provide competitive prices & product choices. Anti competitive conduct: criminal anti competitive. Pyramid selling: civilly reviewable review conduct to determine wheter anti-competitive effect. Price maintence and bait and switch: dual. Intentional (true crime offence) & strict liability offence. Criminal offence: 1) conspiracy (s. 45, 2) bid-rigging (s. 47, 3) knowing or recklessly misleading advertising (s. 52) Investigative powers - search warrants, wiretaps, order to produce documents. Of the following are reviewable: 1) civil misleading advertising (s. 74. 01, 2) refusal to deal (s. 75, 3) price maintenance (s. 76, 4) tied selling/exclusive dealing/ market restrictions (s. 77, 5) abuse of dominance (s. 78, 79, 6) mergers (s. 92) Remedies: orders, amp, resitutition, no jail. Compeititon bureau: enformcement powers, information request, court oder for production of documents, search warrants search premise, seize docs, wiretaps. Civil review matters heard by comp tribunal.
