Australia’s Competition
Policy Review
Conclusions and Recommendations from the Final Report
Following the recent release of the final report of Australia’s Competition Policy Review, the Monash Law
Faculty invites you to attend our unique and timely seminar to hear directly from the Chair of the Review
Panel, Professor Ian Harper, and Panel member, Mr Michael O’Bryan QC. Together they will outline the
report’s findings and recommendations, its implications and the necessary next steps, from an economic
and legal perspective.
Guest speakers
Chair
Professor Ian Harper
Professor Bryan Horrigan
BEcon (Hons) (Qld) MEc PhD (ANU) FASSA FAICD
BA, LLB (Qld), DPhil (Oxon)
Dean, Monash Law Faculty
Professor Harper is a leading Australian economist who has
worked closely with governments, banks, corporates and
leading professional services firms at the highest level.
Professor Harper is a Partner at Deloitte Access Economics and
chaired the Competition Policy Review Panel. He is also an Emeritus
Professor of the University of Melbourne.
He served as inaugural Chairman of the Australian Fair Pay
Commission (December 2005 to July 2009) and was one of three
panellists chosen to review Victoria’s state finances (January 2011
to February 2012).
Professor Harper is currently a member of the Australian Advisory
Board of Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He was elected a Fellow
of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2000 and a Fellow
of the Australian Institute of Company Directors in 2009.
Mr Michael O’Bryan QC
Professor Bryan Horrigan has both academic expertise and
professional experience in public and corporate law and governance
from Australian, transnational, and cross-disciplinary perspectives.
Formerly a long-standing law firm and governmental consultant,
Bryan was involved in the last official review of ‘unconscionable
business conduct’ regulation before the recent ‘root and branch’
review of competition law. He was previously appointed by the
Australian Government to an expert panel asked to investigate
the regulation of unconscionable business conduct and problematic
franchising behaviours.
The Australian Government’s acceptance of that expert panel’s
recommendations resulted in changes to major pieces of national
economic regulation in the form of the Competition and Consumer
Act, Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act, and
Franchising Code of Conduct.
LLB(Hons), BSc (Melb)
Mr O’Bryan is a Queen's Counsel at the Victorian Bar.
He has practised extensively in the areas of competition
and consumer law, previously as a partner of the law firm
Minter Ellison (1992 to 2002) and currently as a barrister.
He was a Panel member of the Competition Policy Review
and is a member and past chairman of the Competition and
Consumer Committee of the Law Council of Australia.
Mr O’Bryan also practises generally in commercial law,
corporate and securities law, administrative and constitutional law.
Event Details
Date
Tuesday 21 April 2015
Time
12.30 – 2pm (refreshments/light lunch available
from 12.15pm)
Venue
Monash University Law Chambers,
555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
RSVP
Thursday 16 April 2015 by 12pm (capacity is
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