The Full Federal Court today handed down its decision in relation to Australian Competition and Consumer Commissions appeal against the judgment in ACCC v Lux Distributors Pty Ltd. Request Permissions, The International and Comparative Law Quarterly. Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v J Hutchinson Pty Ltd (No 2) [2022] FCA 1007 (30 August 2022) (Justice Downes)Penalty decision in relation to secondary boycott conduct - consideration of s 76 and 80. 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This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. accc v lux pty ltd [2004] fca 926 The ACCC's action against Lux Distributors Pty Ltd (Lux) involved allegations that between 2009 and 2011, Lux sales representatives engaged in unconscionable conduct in relation to the sale of new vacuum cleaners to five elderly consumers at their homes, under the auspices that they were being offered a free vacuum cleaner maintenance check. The ACCC alleged that between 2009 and 2011, Lux engaged in unconscionable conduct in relation to the sale of vacuum cleaners to five elderly consumers in contravention of section 51AB of the Trade Practices Act 1974 and section 21 of the Australian Consumer Law. The ACCC appealed the decision in relation to three of the five consumers who were subject to the sales tactics contending that, amongst other things, His Honour set the bar for unconscionable conduct too high by requiring conduct to have a "moral tainting"; by giving insufficient weight to the primary purpose of the Lux representative's approach, which was to sell a new vacuum cleaner; and by placing too much emphasis upon the existence of a cooling-off period, which should not negate the fundamental unconscionable conduct breach. Following this successful appeal and consistent with the ACCC's express enforcement priorities, the ACCC Chairman has alluded to continued enforcement action, especially in cases involving "vulnerable consumers and where there have been other breaches of consumer protection provisions of the ACL".
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