Handbook

Competition policy is currently one of the most controversial areas of public policy impacting business. Competition policy represents the framework for legal change creating and encouraging the developments of markets. Competition law, in the form Part IV of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010, regulates competition by proscribing horizontal and vertical practices which are either per se anti-competitive or substantially affect competition. This subject deals both substantially and critically with the economic theory and public policy objectives which underpin competition policy and law, the legal techniques involved in creating and encouraging markets and the laws regulating competition. Students will undertake a number of case studies in competition policy and learn how the law regulating competition applies to various business practices.