Cartels Insights

31 October 2008

Criminalising cartels: The overseas experience

By Michael Corrigan and Martin Low QC.

Key Points:

Australia is developing laws to criminalise serious cartel conduct, but the final shape of the laws is still unclear. Competition partner Michael Corrigan was joined in August by Canadian cartel expert Martin Low QC and Clayton Utz' Ross McInnes to tease out the issues arising from the current model, including the challenges of a dual regime of civil and criminal liability, the threshold for liability, and how it works in other jurisdictions. Click here to listen to their discussion.

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