Norcast v Bradken (FCA)

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Written By Julie Clarke

Federal Court of Australia
Justice Gordon

Norcast S.ár.L v Bradken Limited (No 2) [2013] FCA 235; 219 FCR 14; 302 ALR 486 (19 March 2013)

Issue: cartel (bid rigging), anti-overlap

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Justice Gordon held that Bradken had engaged in bid-rigging and ordered it to pay a total of US$22.4 million. This was the first test of Australia's new cartel laws, which entered into force in 2009, and raised several interesting issues, including an issue as to the extraterritorial scope of the provision. Bradken was also found to have engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct.

Julie Clarke
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