I am pleased to announce the appointment of the Hon Justice Lindsay Foster as a part-time Deputy President of the Australian Competition Tribunal for a five year period beginning on 8 June 2012.
Justice Foster has been a member of the Federal Court of Australia since 2008 and a short-term, part-time Deputy President of the Tribunal since April 2011.
Justice Foster, who at the Bar specialised in commercial, competition, equity and administrative law, brings to the Tribunal his extensive skills as a legal practitioner and his experience in the private sector.
The Tribunal is an independent statutory tribunal that hears applications for authorisation of company mergers and acquisitions which would otherwise be prohibited under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (CCA). The Tribunal also considers appeals on certain Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) decisions, including decisions to grant or refuse merger clearances, reviews of decisions under the national access regime of the CCA, and other authorisation decisions made by the ACCC.
The Tribunal now consists of a part-time President, three part-time Deputy Presidents and nine part‑time members.