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Andrew Salgo is Of Counsel in the Australian dispute resolution group. Andrew has worked with many high profile clients across many areas of law handling complex disputes where significant commercial and reputational interests have been involved. This experience has included work in the Supreme Courts of New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, Queensland and Tasmania, the Federal Court, and the High Court. In addition to commercial litigation Andrew's work has also involved class actions, arbitration, intellectual property disputes, commissions, and representation of senior public company officers in examinations and other dealings concerning the Australian Securities Investment Commission.
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Australia: Illusory Discount Pricing; ACCC files proceedings against Woolworths and Coles

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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has sent a shot across the bows of retailers using discount pricing claims on long-term prices that remain the same for many months. In brief The ACCC commenced Federal Court proceedings on 23 September against Coles and Woolworths alleging that the two major supermarket have misled consumers by using their “Down Down” and “Prices Dropped” pricing claims in cases where the prices were actually higher than, or the…