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Anne Flahvin

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Anne Flahvin is a special counsel in the Dispute Resolution and Litigation group at Baker McKenzie in Sydney. Anne is experienced in content issues, particularly those affecting the media, advertising, publishing and education sectors. She also advises regularly on copyright and new media. Anne joined Baker McKenzie after an academic career teaching media law and contracts at Macquarie University and the University of Technology, Sydney. After joining Baker McKenzie she continued as a part-time academic, teaching two media law courses in the LLM program at the University of New South Wales until 2015. Prior to her legal career, Anne was a journalist, and has worked on the Australian Financial Review, the Sydney Morning Herald and the National Times covering politics and finance.

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…