Precedents: Competition & Consumer Law
7 starting-point precedents for this area. Each one names the law it rests on and says how far AI may help.
- Precedents in this area
- 7
- Full text
- For signed-in accounts
- Newest law stated as at
- 17 October 2026
- Guidance for this area
- Tasks and AI use in Competition & Consumer Law
| Precedent | Kind | Where it applies | AI use | Law stated as at |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACCC acquisition notification under the mandatory merger regime: preparation guidePractical guide to deciding whether an acquisition must be notified to the ACCC and preparing a short- or long-form notification in the ACCC acquisitions portal, with the thresholds, fees, review timelines and gun-jumping traps as at 17 October 2026. | Form | Australia | Yellow | 17 October 2026 |
| Consumer guarantee demand letter (repair, replace, refund or compensation)Letter for a consumer client to a supplier that has failed a consumer guarantee under the Australian Consumer Law, identifying the guarantee, explaining why the failure is major or minor, stating the client's chosen remedy and claiming consequential loss. | Letter | Australia | Yellow | 17 October 2026 |
| Unfair contract terms review checklist for standard form consumer and small business contractsClause-by-clause checklist for reviewing a standard form consumer or small business contract against the unfair contract terms regime, now backed by civil penalties, with a record of the reasons for keeping, changing or removing each risk term. | Checklist | Australia | Yellow | 17 October 2026 |
| ACCC section 155 notice: response plan, document hold notice and AI-assisted review protocolFirst-week plan for a client served with an ACCC s 155 notice: a document hold notice to staff, a response workplan, a privilege schedule, and a protocol for using search and AI review tools that records what the ACCC now asks to be told about AI tools and prompts. | Other | Australia | Yellow | 17 October 2026 |
| AI-washing and AI-generated advertising claims: substantiation checklistPre-publication checklist for two risks: claims about a product's AI capabilities (AI-washing), and marketing content generated by AI (copy, images, reviews, prices), so every claim is true, not misleading and backed by evidence before release. | Checklist | Australia, United States | Yellow | 17 October 2026 |
| Competition law compliance policy for algorithmic and AI pricing toolsPolicy that controls how a business selects, configures and monitors pricing software and AI tools so they do not share competitors' sensitive information, coordinate prices or mislead customers, with approval, data, audit and escalation rules. | Policy | Australia, European Union, United States | Yellow | 17 October 2026 |
| Scams Prevention Framework compliance checklist for banks, telcos and digital platformsReadiness checklist for entities in sectors designated under the Scams Prevention Framework (Pt IVF of the Competition and Consumer Act), mapped to the six principles, with the key dates as at 17 October 2026 and the items still waiting on sector codes and rules. | Checklist | Australia | Yellow | 17 October 2026 |
AI use levels: Green means AI can do most of the drafting and a lawyer reviews it. Yellow means AI helps in set ways and a lawyer checks specific points. Red means a lawyer does the work and AI stays out of the decisive steps.