The prohibition on resale price maintenance - from controversial beginnings to redundancy?

Russell Miller

Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law

Russell Miller, ‘The prohibition on resale price maintenance - from controversial beginnings to redundancy?’ (2014) 22 Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law 224

Extract

‘What if the prohibition on vertical resale price maintenance (RPM) had not been part of our law? What if the prohibition were now treated as redundant and repealed, or at least amended? To answer the first question, it is necessary to understanding the circumstances in which the prohibition was introduced in the first place. An answer to the second involves an understanding of the part the prohibition plays in modern Australian society. …’ [fn omitted]