Australian Competition & Consumer Commission v Gullyside Pty Ltd [2005] FCA 1727

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Australian Competition & Consumer Commission v Gullyside Pty Ltd [2005] FCA 1727 Trade Practices – price-fixing arrangement – admission of conduct by contraveners – penalties – factors relevant to assessing appropriate penalty for corporate and individual contraveners – importance of deterrence – relevance of other cases on penalty – whether conduct remote from the corporations

Statutes Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) ss 45(2)(a)(ii), 45(2)(b)(ii), 155, 76

Cases Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v ABB Transmission and Distribution Limited (2001) ATPR 41-815 Cited Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Ampol Petroleum (Victoria) Pty Ltd (1996) ATPR 41-500 Considered Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Australian Safeway Stores Pty Limited (1997) 75 FCR 238 Cited Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v CC (NSW) Pty Ltd (No 8) (1999) 92 FCR 375 Cited Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Leahy Petroleum (No 2) (2005) 215 ALR 281 Distinguished Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Leahy Petroleum (No 3) (2005) 215 ALR 301 Cited Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Liquorland (Australia) Pty Ltd [2005] FCA 683 Cited Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v McMahon Services Pty Ltd (2004) ATPR 42-031 Cited Markarian v The Queen (2005) 215 ALR 213 Followed N W Frozen Foods Pty Ltd v Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (1996) 71 FCR 285 Followed Trade Practices Commission v CSR Ltd (1991) ATPR 41-076 Followed Trade Practices Commission v Sony (Aust) Pty Ltd (1990) ATPR 41-053 Considered Trade Practices Commission v TNT Australia Pty Ltd (1995) ATPR 41-375 Cited

AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER COMMISSION v GULLYSIDE PTY LTD, O'KEEFFE NOMINEES PTY LTD, MERIBELL PTY LTD, PARMJIT SINGH, TERENCE EDWARD JOHN O'KEEFFE QUD 130 OF 2005 KIEFEL J BRISBANE 30 NOVEMBER 2005