The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has brought its actions in the Federal Court against a franchisor alleging unconscionable conduct and breach of the Franchising Code of Conduct under the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth). Meanwhile, dissatisfaction with the Franchising Code...

Socio-economic and political writers view the changing relationship between states and multinational enterprises (MNEs) from vastly different perspectives - exemplified in recent years by such dramatic and extreme titles as The Secret Empire: How 25 Multinationals Rule the World on the one hand...

Traditionally, it has been extremely difficult for individuals to obtain restitution from government. The nature of payments made by citizens to the state is such that they will often fall outside the narrow categories of ‘unjustness' which give rise to unjust enrichment in the law of...

The recent Federal Court decision of Roxborough v Rothmans of Pall Mall Australia Ltd involved applications by tobacco retailers for recovery of amounts paid to a tobacco wholesaler in respect of tobacco purchases. The applications arose as a result of the High Court's decision in Ha v State of...

In this chapter, we explain and evaluate the AUSFTA primarily from an Australian perspective, given that most countries will be in a more or less analogous position to Australia when negotiating an FTA with the US. AUSFTA provides an illustration of the outcomes that countries with relatively...

The relationship between the bilateral investment treaty (‘BIT') between Australia and China (1988) and the preferential trade agreement between those countries (‘ChAFTA') (2015) provides an interesting case study of the co-existence of successive treaties under public international law....

The WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement: A Commentary by Edwin Vermulst is the second in the Oxford Commentaries on the GATT/WTO Agreements series. This book is recommended to anyone wanting to understand anti-dumping in the WTO