Miller′s Australian Competition & Consumer Law Annotated, 35th edition

Professionals rely on Miller’s for the full text of the updated Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) (formerly the Trade Practices Act) and for Russell V Miller’s expert insight into how its sections operate.

Now, more than 30 years after the book first published, businesses and advisers continue to need to understand how the legislation impacts on various aspects of day to day corporate activity. To do so, practitioners and businesses will benefit from the updated legislation in this 35th edition, and from Russell Miller’s annotation commentary at provision level, guiding readers through the meaning of the law with the benefit of judicial interpretation of the provisions of the Competition and Consumer Act.

Miller 35th edition will provide the legislation consolidated for all 2012 amendments, and address all the key cases handed down in 2012. Developments include: 

• Telecommunication and energy consumer protection cases – Singtel Optus, Apple 4G ipad and Energywatch cases
• Australian Consumer Law cases – Google, Loyola v Cryeng, MSY Technology, Haros v Linfox cases
• Competition cases – Technology leasing
• Wide ranging legislation amendments range, addressing access arrangements for the National Broadband Network, to energy retail, and competition and consumer safeguards.

Miller’s Australian Competition and Consumer Law Annotated, 35th Edition 2013 will offer features to assist practitioners and students working with the Competition and Consumer Act and related legislation. These include: 

• Comparative tables mapping pre-reform provisions to those in the Competition and Consumer Act
• Authored annotations written by Russell Miller explaining the operation of the legislation and providing a detailed analysis of the relevant case law
• Thomson Reuters authored subsection headings for all provisions of the Act 
• History notes including the date of effect of the amending provision
• Cross-references indicating where a particular regulation affects a section of the Act
• Editor’s notes providing information about transitional, application and savings provisions and notification of amendments which have received assent but which commence on a future date
• Reproduced related regulations and materials.

The new edition of Miller is your essential resource for keeping pace with legislative and case law developments in competition and consumer law.