Sentences with phrase «unconscionable pricing»

«The lack of high - quality evidence supporting Acthar gel's benefit in a variety of conditions, along with the unconscionable price increase by the manufacturer, should give pause to all practitioners.

At least in large part, damage control was achieved, but at an unconscionable price.

«Given the recent unconscionable price increases of EpiPens by Mylan Pharmaceutical, we must look to more affordable alternatives for families dealing with allergies,» Hannon said in a statement.

Not exact matches

Against this backdrop, the company faces a class action, is being investigated by ASIC and the competition regulator ACCC has taken legal action in the Federal Court, alleging unconscionable conduct and misleading farmers in relation to forecasting a milk price of $ 6.05 when it allegedly knew dairy commodity prices were falling globally.

The ACCC is examining the latest milk price cuts from Fonterra and Murray Goulburn to consider whether the changes «involved misleading conduct or whether there are elements of unconscionable conduct».

Finally came the news that Australia's competition watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), will investigate Coles and Woolworths for alleged «unconscionable conduct» in the form of bullying tactics against food and grocery suppliers over prices and supply contracts.

Unconscionable conduct (agrees with NFF that they have not provided protection and support reforms «to provide transparency in the supply chain» and recognise that «certain classes of suppliers... are predisposed to suffering from a special disadvantage...»; misuse of market power (legal framework must «level the balance of market power in negotiations...», «ensure transparency in the transmission of market prices» and «not allow for final market risks to be borne by the primary producer» and provide «transparency of contract processes» - specifically, Canegrowers supports effects test and a process giving ACCC greater power to «regulate anti-competitive behaviour and impose penalties», shifting «the decisions framework from the judicial system to a regulatory system» which would make it more accessible to small producers); collective bargaining (notes limits of Sugar Industry Act (Qld); authorisation and notification approval costly and limited and not a viable alternative - peak bodies should be able to «commence and progress collective bargaining with mills on behalf of their members» and current threshold too restrictive)» competitive neutrality (mixed outcomes - perverse outcomes in the case of natural monopolies - suggest remove «application of competitive neutrality provisions to natural monopoly essential services»)

Supports NFF submission and identifies 10 priority areas: Unconscionable conduct, Misuse of market power (effects test), Unfair contract terms (extension to small business), Collective bargaining (inc raising threshold for primary production bargaining), Codes of conduct, Statutory duty of good faith, Powers of the ACCC (price monitoring, divestiture powers), Access, Protection from agri - terrorism, Establishing a Perishable Goods Commissioner

Competition policy (SME focus; need for equity; treat SMEs as «consumers» when dealing with larger businesses - extend unfair terms contracts to small business; need «legal precedents or statutory definitions» as part of unconscionable conduct framework); competition laws (focus on unfair terms and unconscionable behaviour; mention of MMP but not in context of s 46; access - call for broader access; price signalling (not clear)-RRB-; administration

Alcohol distribution (concern about «duopoly» pricing), lease arrangements (landlord power), unconscionable conduct (wants clear definition), review websites (wants code of conduct), ACCC (increase capacity to investigate re: unconscionable conduct; improve customer - service focus of ACCC when responding to small business)

Changes to competition laws (milk wars discussion and recommendations relating to MMP (introduce effects test), predatory pricing (recommend Minister direct ACCC to investigate Coles for breach of s 46 relating to predatory pricing), unconscionable conduct (suggest it be defined), statutory duty of good faith, unfair contract terms (seeks «recognition of the competitive disadvantage faced by farmers» and extension of unfair contract terms protection to small business), collective bargaining (seeks relaxation of public interest test for boycott approvals in agriculture markets, increase «ability for peak bodies to commence and progress collective bargaining and boycott applications» on behalf of members - and further dairy specific recommendations, ACCC divestiture power (wants ACCC to have similar divestiture powers to Comp Commission in UK - «simpler process of divestiture», ACCC monitoring powers (wants Minister to direct ACCC to use price monitoring powers to «monitor prices, costs and profits relating to the supply of drinking milk») and mandatory code of conduct (wants mandatory code and «Ombudsman with teeth to ensure compliance»)-RRB-.

Unconscionable conduct (s 22 to be amended to include «price» within list of matters court can consider when determining whether conduct unconscionable); unfair contract terms (expand to B2B contracts and make it «possible for term that «sets the upfront price payable» to be found to be Unconscionable conduct (s 22 to be amended to include «price» within list of matters court can consider when determining whether conduct unconscionable); unfair contract terms (expand to B2B contracts and make it «possible for term that «sets the upfront price payable» to be found to be unconscionable); unfair contract terms (expand to B2B contracts and make it «possible for term that «sets the upfront price payable» to be found to be unfair»)

There's no book to ship, no returns, no printer to pay — in short, it's pretty unconscionable for publishers to charge the same price for a digital file that they do for an actual book.

If there is no TOS allowing them to cancel and refund, that would be a unilateral mistake, i.e. their fault, so they would be held to the price unless the discrepancy is «unconscionable» (basically, unreasonable to assume that the advertise price is correct).

For example, if the terms require that payment be received by the end of the day or the price will go up dramatically, but it's a banking holiday and it's impossible for the purchaser to get the funds, that term might be considered unconscionable depending on the context of the entire agreement.

In other words, the repurchase price can not be unconscionable.