Dr Philip Williams AM

Dr Williams has provided expert evidence in a number of high profile competition law cases, including:

• ACCC v Australian Abalone [2007] FCA 1834
• The C7 case (for News)
• ACCC v Leahy Petroleum (2004) ATPR 41-999
• ACCC v Australian Safeway Stores Pty Limited (2002) ATPR (Diegest) 46-215
• Stirling Harbour Services v Bunbury Port Authority (2000) ATPR 41-752
• Davids Holdings v Attorney-General (1994) 49 FCR 211
• Queenlsand Wire Industries Pty Ltd v The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd (1989) 167 CLR 177
• Application by Co-operative Bulk Handling Limited (No 3) [2013] ACompT 3

More information about cases in which Dr Williams has advised or given expert evidence can be found in the AER Profile

Frances Hanks and Philip Williams (eds), Trade Practices Ac: A twenty-five year stocktake (Federation Press, 2001)

Megan Richardson and Philip Williams (eds), The Law and the Market (1995) Federation Press

Philip Williams, 'The counterfactual test in s 46' (2013) 41(2) Australian Business Law Review 93

Philip Williams, Commentary on paper by Brent Fisse: "The Proposed Australian Cartel Offence", CRMA, Trade Practices Workshop, 2006

Joshua S Gans, Rajat Sood and Philip L Williams, 'The Decision of the High Court in Rural Press: How the literature on credible threats may have materially facilitated a better decision' (25 March 2004, Revised 23 June 2004

Philip Williams and Graeme Woodbridge, 'Antitrust Merger Policy: Lessons from the Australian Experience',
NBER Working Paper Series, Vol w9600 (2003), available for purchase from SSRN

Philip Williams and Graeme Woodbridge, 'The Relation of Efficiencies to the Substantial Lessening of Competition Test for Mergers: Substitutes or Complements?' (2002) 30(6) Australian Business Law Review 435-44

Philip Williams, 'Melway Publishing Pty Ltd v Robert Hicks Pty Ltd' [2001] MULR 27; (2001) 25 Melbourne University Law Review 831

J Gans, F Hanks and P L. Williams, 'The Treatment of Natural Monopolies Under the Australian Trade Practices Act: Four Recent Decisions' (2001) 29 Australian Business Law Review 492-507

Philip Williams, 'The Exercise of Market Power: Its Treatment under the Australian and New Zealand Statutes' (1994) 9 Review of Industrial Organization 607.

Philip Williams, 'QCMA, forty years on', Bannerman Competition Lecture (11 February 2016)
A video of this lecture is available on YouTube.

Philip L Williams, 'Notes on the proposed new s 46' (Discussion at Competition and Consumer Workshop, University of Adelaide, 11 October 2014)

Should an effects test be added to s 46? (Competition Law Conference, Sydney, 24 May 2014)

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