Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Baxter Healthcare was
a decision of the High Court of Australia, which ruled on 29 August
2007 that Baxter Healthcare Pty Limited, a tenderer for various
government contracts, was bound by the Trade Practices Act 1974 (TPA)
(Australian legislation governing anti-competitive behaviour) in its
trade and commerce in tendering for government contracts. More
generally, the case concerned the principles of derivative governmental
immunity: whether the immunity of a government from a statute extends
to third parties that conduct business with the government. The High
Court's judgment marked a successful appeal for the Australian
Competition and Consumer Commission, the Australian regulator of
anti-competitive conduct, having lost at first instance and on appeal
in the Federal Court of Australia. The ACCC was again successful when
the case was remitted to the Federal Court for reconsideration, ending
eight years of litigation between the parties. The High Court's
judgment was received as a significant precedent in the law of
derivative governmental immunity in Australia.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1721:
Robert Walpole took office as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of
the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons, becoming what would
later be recognised as the first British Prime Minister.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Walpole>
1850:
Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality, five months before
California achieved U.S. statehood.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles>
1949:
Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, creating NATO, an
organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby
its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by
any external party.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO>
1968:
American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated
on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, US.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King%2C_Jr._assassination>
1975:
Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico,
US, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
witness (v):
1. To furnish proof of, to show.
2. To take as evidence.
3. To see, note, or gain knowledge of.
4.
(with to) To present personal religious testimony
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/witness>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes
within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their
oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize
that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this
center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real
peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is
that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which
is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that
there can never be peace between nations until there is known that true
peace, which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men.
--Black Elk
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Black_Elk>