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Expert Economic Evidence in Australian Competition Law: “Economic Assessors – Time to Adopt Admiralty Practice?”

BY | July 21, 2023

Sitting as it does at the intersection between economics and law, competition law poses particular challenges for judges. Is it time to consider more innovative methods of adducing and assessing…

Sitting as it does at the intersection between economics and law, competition law poses particular challenges for judges. Is it time to consider more innovative methods of adducing and assessing expert economic evidence in competition cases? After briefly describing the Australian competition law framework, this paper set out the usual ways in which expert economic evidence is adduced in competition cases in Australia. It then posits a potential innovation, borrowed from admiralty law, namely th

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