Emond asked me to review their new Canadian competition law text, Competition Enforcement and Litigation in Canada, authored by Antonio Di Domenico.
This new text, which was published in October, 2018, is generally intended to provide an overview of Canadian competition law, with a focus on competition enforcement and litigation:
“This definitive treatise substantially outlines the analytical framework required for effectively examining competition law issues, including each reviewable practice and criminal offence under the Competition Act. Author Antonio Di Domenico offers an in-depth exploration of the practice of competition enforcement and litigation in both civil and criminal contexts, as well as the Competition Bureau’s immunity and leniency programs, and merger notification and review process. Various processes and procedures are broken down to a granular level, allowing readers to have a better understanding of the nature of competition law as a whole.” (Overview)
While there is a relatively small, but good, body of existing Canadian competition law books, this new text fills an important gap, providing a comprehensive summary of the enforcement side of competition law in Canada.
Included are detailed and authoritative discussions of all of the key competition law related enforcement topics, including Competition Bureau (Bureau) investigations, criminal and civil law enforcement processes (including Competition Tribunal applications and trials) and the Bureau’s Immunity and Leniency Programs.
In addition to summaries of criminal and civil law competition enforcement processes, this new text also provides detailed discussions of related substantive criminal and reviewable practices provisions, with extensive case and secondary source citations.
Particularly helpful in this next text are the practice related tools, which include practice related strategies, flow charts of criminal offences and stages for criminal and civil hearings, tables and summaries of penalties for different Competition Actprovisions and summaries of key cases in table format.
This book also provides detailed discussions of competition law related topics that are difficult to find elsewhere, such as step-by-step overviews of criminal trials and Competition Tribunal hearings, summaries of the different types of privilege applicable in competition law matters and the sentencing process in criminal cases, to mention a few.
Overall, this new text is an impressive addition to the existing body of Canadian competition law sources and provides an important new (and comprehensive) summary of the process side of competition law matters.
For more information about this text and ordering information, see: here.
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