Dylan McGirr

Jul 17, 2024 | lexology.com | Thomas Jones |Dylan McGirr

In recent years, the ACCC has increased its focus on environmental issues. With the creation of an internal taskforce in 2023, the ACCC’s focus on sustainability has expanded to include competition law and product safety, as well as the areas of consumer law and fair trading.

Jun 19, 2024 | lexology.com | Thomas Jones |Dylan McGirr |Ruby Simpson |Charlotte Ainsworth

In the most recent report of the ACCC’s Digital Platform Services Inquiry (‘Report’), the ACCC has found that consumers are unable to exercise choice or meaningful control over their data, and that consumers are mostly unaware of the extent to which their data is collected and how it may be used.

May 15, 2024 | lexology.com | Thomas Jones |Dylan McGirr |Ruby Simpson

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is seeking special leave to appeal to the High Court from the Full Court’s judgement in J Hutchinson Pty Ltd v Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.[1]The focus of the special leave application is on what is required to demonstrate that parties have reached an anticompetitive “arrangement or understanding” – a fundamental concept under Australia’s competition laws.

Jan 17, 2024 | lexology.com | Thomas Jones |Matthew Bovaird |Patrick Cordwell |Dylan McGirr

The advent of applications like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Dall-E has generated lots of discussion and debate about the broad impacts that artificial intelligence (AI) will have on societies and economies. An important aspect of that is whether the current regulatory ‘toolkit’ is sufficient to regulate generative AI. AI presents many appealing economic features that promise to advance the wellbeing of consumers. Its use could improve information flows and facilitate more transparent, efficient markets.

Aug 30, 2023 | mondaq.com | Matthew Bovaird |Patrick Cordwell |Thomas Jones |Dylan McGirr

In May 2021, we published a short article noting that civil proceedings had been commenced by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ("ACCC") against Delta Building Automation Ltd ("Delta") for alleged contraventions of the cartel conduct prohibition.